2026-01-08 00:30:00
Urban Texture II 🧩
城市质地 II 🧩
📷 Nikon F4E
🎞️ ERA 100, expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite
Urban Texture II 🧩
城市质地 II 🧩
📷 Nikon F4E
🎞️ ERA 100, expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite
Urbanity - Urbana Composita 🌆
城市化 - 建构城市 🌆
📷 Pentax MX
🎞️ Ilford Pan 100
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite
"How to build giant solar plants in mountainous areas"
#SolarPower #Energy #Renewables
The Gyeonggi Nambu Provincial Police Agency said it has asked Interpol for cooperation in a manhunt for the Chinese suspect currently residing in China.
https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/southkorea/law-crime/20251208…
Reading thoughts about a new Chinese openweights AI model, Kimi K2 Thinking.
https://www.interconnects.ai/p/kimi-k2-thinking-what-it-means
Source: Ant Group's Ant International grew revenue by 20% to 25% in 2025 to an estimated $3.7B, or ~10% of Ant's total 2025 revenue, as it competes with Visa (Jing Yang/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/ant-…
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MorningShow
Chinese American Bear:
🎵 Forever Lover (永远的爱人)
#ChineseAmericanBear
https://chineseamericanbear.bandcamp.com/track/forever-lover
https://open.spotify.com/track/1osioxQykglfD6mNLzfwB1
🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#InTune
- Live music from Chinese Pipa player and composer Gao Hong
Chinese pipa virtuoso and composer Gao Hong joins Katie Derham to play live music from her new album.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002p79l
Moody Urbanity - Relations 👥
情绪化城市 - 关系 👥
📷 Minolta Hi-Matic AF
🎞️ Shanghai GP3 400 Pan
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite
🧧 Chinese criminals made more than $1 billion from those annoying texts
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/news/chinese-criminals-made-more-than-1-billion-from-those-annoying-texts/ar-AA1OtOzx
Pressure mounts on Mamdani to 'continue the fight' on illicit Chinese vapes flooding NYC (Fox News)
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/pressure-mounts-on-mamdani-to-continue-the-fight-on-illicit-chinese-vapes-flooding-nyc
http://www.memeorandum.com/251208/p96#a251208p96
Chinese company #Gestala, founded and led by Phoenix Peng, aims to achieve whole-brain reading, writing, and modulation through phased-array #ultrasound https://www.gestala.com
douban: Douban friendship network (2009)
A friendship network among users on Douban.com, a Chinese website providing recommendations for books, music, and movies.
This network has 154908 nodes and 327162 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/douban…
Urbanity - Urbana Decay ❤️🩹
城市化 - 城市的衰败 ❤️🩹
📷 Pentax MX
🎞️ Ilford Pan 100
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite
December 2025 issue of the Journal of Chinese Religions now published https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20134374/december-2025-issue-journal-chinese-religions-now-published
Chinese AI company Zhipu opened up 3.3% in its Hong Kong trading debut after raising ~$558M in its IPO at a valuation of about $6.55B (Yantoultra Ngui/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/chinese-tech-companie…
Impressed a Chinese journalist by understanding the name of her favorite media outlet, a once well-responded investigative magazine, in #Chinese.
(bonus points to anyone who can guess what outlet that is)
Urban Texture 🧩
城市质地 🧩
📷 Nikon F4E
🎞️ ERA 100, expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite
douban: Douban friendship network (2009)
A friendship network among users on Douban.com, a Chinese website providing recommendations for books, music, and movies.
This network has 154908 nodes and 327162 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/douban…
Sources: the Netherlands is prepared to drop the ministerial order that gave it control of Nexperia if China allows exports of its critical chips again (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-07/dutch-ready…
Humanoid showdown: Chinese firms make up 55% of robot exhibitors at US tech event https://interestingengineering.com/ces-2026/china-leads-humanoid-robotics-at-ces-2026
#Tesla lost its crown as the world’s bestselling electric vehicle maker on Friday
🔸as a customer revolt over Elon Musk’s right-wing politics,
🔸expiring U.S. tax breaks for buyers
🔸and stiff overseas competition
pushed sales down for a second year in a row.
🔥Tesla said that it delivered 1.64 million vehicles in 2025 -- down 9% from a year earlier.
Chinese rival
Does #Trump ... does he think pardoning criminals, including Chinese agents, is going to make him more popular?
December 2025 issue of the Journal of Chinese Religions now published
https://ift.tt/46drDW9
Mining the Logs: Sources on Blue Humor URL …
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Ex-Tory MP Ben Howlett says he paid £100 for a 50% stake in influential X account PoliticsUK, which he used for posts that aligned with his clients' interests (Democracy for Sale)
https://democracyforsale.substack.com/p/breaking-our-fake-chinese-ai-investor<…
The PRIMA retinal implant of Max Hodak's US company Science Corp (currently aimed at AMD) may not stand a chance against the optogenetic approach of Chinese company Zhongmou Therapeutics (currently aimed at RP)? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kFOhopQZFo and
Moody Urbanity - Urbana Composita 🌆
情绪化城市 - 建构城市 🌆
📷 Zeiss Ikon Super Ikonta 533/16
🎞️ Ilford HP5 Plus 400, expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite
Local governments across China are funding dozens of "robot training centers", where human trainers mimic movements like folding clothes to teach the robots (Rest of World)
https://restofworld.org/2026/china-robots-training-centers-workers/
We're Up to Six Cases of Chinese 'Researchers' Smuggling Bioweapons Into America (David Strom/HotAir)
https://hotair.com/david-strom/2025/11/06/were-up-to-six-cases-of-chinese-researchers-smuggling-bioweapons-into-america-n3808630
http://www.memeorandum.com/251106/p133#a251106p133
Analyses of the Ancient Chinese Report on the Total #SolarEclipse in 709 BCE - Implications for the Contemporaneous Earth’s Rotation Speed and Solar Cycles: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ae0461 -> Humanity’s earliest datable record for a total solar eclipse allows scientists to derive accurate measurements of Earth’s ancient rotation speed and provides independent validation of solar cycle reconstruction in the 8th century BCE: https://en.nagoya-u.ac.jp/news/articles/historical-geography-helps-researchers-solve-2700-year-old-eclipse-mystery/
Chinese businesses are transforming Mexico City’s poshest neighborhood
A growing Chinese techie community in Nuevo Polanco is fueling a boom in restaurants and markets to serve them.
#mexicocity #cdmx
Investigation: Chinese military officials’ quiet visits to Moscow, exposed: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/03/investigation-chinese-military-officials-quiet.html
News from earlier this month: A Chinese cybergroup compromised an #ArcGIS server and used it as a backdoor.
https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/14/chinese_hackers_arcgis_backdo…
Chinese hackers exploiting React2Shell bug impacting countless websites, Amazon researchers say https://therecord.media/chinese-hackers-exploiting-react2shell-vulnerability-amazon
JOURNAL> December 2025 issue of the Journal of Chinese Religions now published
https://ift.tt/On1RYqN
Mining the Logs: Sources on Blue Humor URL …
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🦊 I was tickled pink to discover I can write my name in Chinese as 狐博罗 which means "scholarly fox"!
#chinese #sliceoflife #fox
"Bamboo tissue paper may not be as eco-friendly as you think"
#Bamboo #Tissues #Environment
Chinese smartphone makers are promoting apps to help users switch from iOS in a race for market share, as Apple struggles to roll out AI features in China (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/5bfaf5f3-c92a-41e1-81a6-c065a1bc61c2
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Audioasis
Chinese American Bear:
🎵 Kids Go Down (孩子们的时光)
#ChineseAmericanBear
https://chineseamericanbear.bandcamp.com/track/kids-go-down
https://open.spotify.com/track/4tSnOJt0gQai61lN8wo5b9
Moody Urbanity - Old & New VI 🔆
情绪化城市 - 新与旧 VI 🔆
📷 Zeiss Ikon Super Ikonta 533/16
🎞️ Ilford HP5 Plus 400, expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite
Coupang is facing scrutiny after a data leak revealed that major portions of its Korean-language service were built and maintained by Chinese devs--the main suspect in its recent breach is a former Chinese employee who worked on the company’s authentication systems.
http:/…
Chinese startup Moonshot releases Kimi K2 Thinking, an open-source model it claims beats GPT-5 in agentic capabilities; source: the model cost $4.6M to train (Evelyn Cheng/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/06/alibaba-backed-moonshot-releas…
Moody Urbanity - Urban surrealism 👒
情绪化城市 - 都市超现实主义 👒
📷 Pentax MX
🎞️ Ilford HP5 Plus 400, expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite
“This is a 6-year-old who should be in school, not living in detention,” said Spector.
“And certainly not being separated from his father,
who is a caring, intelligent person who takes good care of him.
They should not be separating families.”
https://www.thecity.n…
Un Momento III 🕰️
一瞬 III 🕰️
📷 Nikon F4E
🎞️ ERA 100, expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite
Chinese AI startups Zhipu and MiniMax are set to go public in Hong Kong on January 8 and 9, respectively; MiniMax has 210M users, and Zhipu has 8,000 clients (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-06/o…
Chinese Hospital Ship Visits Jamaica as US Gunboats Ply Caribbean (Jim Wyss/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-05/chinese-hospital-ship-visits-jamaica-as-us-gunboats-ply-caribbean
http://www.memeorandum.com/251205/p94#a251205p94
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #DriveTime
Chinese American Bear:
🎵 Forever Lover (永远的爱人)
#ChineseAmericanBear
https://chineseamericanbear.bandcamp.com/track/forever-lover
https://open.spotify.com/track/1osioxQykglfD6mNLzfwB1
An Airwallex executive warned in 2023 that China staff were pushing to access client data; Keith Rabois accuses Airwallex of enabling Chinese access to US data (Lucas Baird/Australian Financial Review)
https://www.afr.com/companies/finan…
China is allowing Nexperia to export chips again, according to officials from several auto companies; shares in Wingtech, Nexperia's Chinese parent, surged 10% (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-07…
Check out today's Metacurity for the most crucial cybersecurity developments you should know, including
--CISA plans to fire 54 employees despite court injunction,
--Google reports new ways threat actors can use AI in their attacks,
--KT accused of concealing BPFDoor infection,
--Meta earns $7b a year in scam ads,
--Hackers stole data from Hyundai AutoEver America,
--Chinese court sentences scam operators to death,
--NV ransomware attack took plac…
JOURNAL> December 2025 issue of the Journal of Chinese Religions now published https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20134375/december-2025-issue-journal-chinese-religions-now-published
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
Chinese American Bear:
🎵 Forever Lover (永远的爱人)
#ChineseAmericanBear
https://chineseamericanbear.bandcamp.com/track/forever-lover
https://open.spotify.com/track/1osioxQykglfD6mNLzfwB1
Un Momento 🕰️
一瞬 🕰️
📷 Zeiss Ikon Super Ikonta 533/16
🎞️ Lucky SHD 400
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite
Sources: China told some local tech companies to temporarily halt purchase orders for Nvidia's H200 chips while officials deliberate on import conditions (Qianer Liu/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/china-tells-tech-…
douban: Douban friendship network (2009)
A friendship network among users on Douban.com, a Chinese website providing recommendations for books, music, and movies.
This network has 154908 nodes and 327162 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/douban…
Moody Urbanity - Old & New V 🔆
情绪化城市 - 新与旧 V 🔆
📷 Zeiss Ikon Super Ikonta 533/16
🎞️ Ilford HP5 Plus 400, expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite
US Space Force to Use Three Weapons To Jam Chinese Satellites Via Remote Control (Anthony Capaccio/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-04/us-space-force-to-use-three-weapons-to-jam-chinese-satellites-via-remote-control
http://www.memeorandum.com/251104/p73#a251104p73
December 2025 issue of the Journal of Chinese Religions now published
https://ift.tt/Eof5v6V
Mining the Logs: Sources on Blue Humor URL …
via Input 4 RELCFP https://ift…
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #90TEEN
M. Ward:
🎵 Chinese Translation
#MWard
https://m-ward.bandcamp.com/track/chinese-translation
https://open.spotify.com/track/58ZnKjXrukDgiYaLfYWUE0
Sources: Chinese officials are reviewing Meta's purchase of Manus for possible technology export control violations (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/62f8f2c5-95c7-4437-b0f1-b8ecd507c330
Arizona attorney general sues Chinese online retailer Temu over data theft claims
https://apnews.com/article/arizona-temu-lawsuit-14615cec4bb7927493a7208f9d23431b
Un Momento II 🕰️
一瞬 II 🕰️
📷 Zeiss Ikon Super Ikonta 533/16
🎞️ Lucky SHD 400
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite
Chinese AI startup MiniMax raises $619M in its Hong Kong IPO, at the top of the range; sources: its institutional offering was oversubscribed by 70x (Dave Sebastian/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20…
JOURNAL> December 2025 issue of the Journal of Chinese Religions now published
https://ift.tt/jpOR9rP
Mining the Logs: Sources on Blue Humor URL …
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Chinese robotaxi companies' tech and rider experience are generally similar to Waymo's, as they build businesses at home while also expanding internationally (Peter Landers/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/autos/china-r
Moody Urbanity - Action Required III 🧭
情绪化城市 - 行动指南 III 🧭
📷 Pentax MX
🎞️ Ilford HP5 Plus 400, expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite
An interview with 10 Kenyan AI annotators shows Chinese companies hire data labelers via opaque middleman networks and WhatsApp groups to avoid accountability (Rest of World)
https://restofworld.org/2025/kenya-china-ai-workers/
Sources: to hedge against Beijing approval risk, Nvidia is requiring Chinese customers to pay upfront for H200 chips, with no cancellations, refunds, or changes (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/nvidia-requires-ful…
Moody Urbanity - Life Details ⚜️
情绪化城市 - 生活细节 ⚜️
📷 Nikon FE
🎞️ Ilford HP5 Plus 400, expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MorningShow
Chinese American Bear:
🎵 Forever Lover (永远的爱人)
#ChineseAmericanBear
https://chineseamericanbear.bandcamp.com/track/forever-lover
https://open.spotify.com/track/1osioxQykglfD6mNLzfwB1
A Chinese hospital says Alibaba's PANDA AI tool has analyzed 180,000 CT scans and detected ~24 pancreatic cancer cases since its deployment in November 2024 (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/02/world/a…
Chinese automotive chipmaker Black Sesame says its Huashan A2000 chip passed the US Commerce and Defense Departments' "relevant reviews" for global sales (Coco Feng/South China Morning Post)
https://www.scmp.com/tech/article/3338742/<…
Moody Urbanity - Paces 🏃♀️
情绪化城市 -配速 🏃♀️
📷 Zeiss IKON Super Ikonta 533/16
🎞️ Ilford HP5 400, expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite
A Chinese court sentences five top members of an infamous Myanmar mafia to death as Beijing continues its crackdown on scam operations, convicting 21 in total (Koh Ewe/BBC)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy9pyljl009o
Urban Mirage 👁️🗨️
城市幻境 👁️🗨️
📷 Nikon F4E
🎞️ Ilford HP5 Plus 400, expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite
Monumental III 🪦
纪念 III 🪦
📷 Nikon F4E
🎞️ Ilford HP5 Plus 400, expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite
Chinese robot vacuum maker Roborock unveils the Saros Rover, a concept robot vacuum with two wheel-legs to let it climb steps, as robotics dominates CES (Dana Wollman/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-06/r…
Urban Mirage II 👁️🗨️
城市幻境 II 👁️🗨️
📷 Nikon F4E
🎞️ Ilford HP5 Plus 400, expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite
US and Canadian authorities warn that Chinese hackers are using the Brickstorm malware to install backdoor access within unnamed government and IT entities (A.J. Vicens/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/chinese-…
Moody Urbanity - Literally 📄
情绪化城市 - 字面上 📄
📷 Pentax MX
🎞️ Ilford HP5 Plus 400,expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite
A look at Mexico City's Nuevo Polanco neighborhood, where Huawei, TikTok, and other Chinese firms have opened offices, fueling a growing Chinese tech community (Daniela Dib/Rest of World)
https://restofworld.org/2025/chinese-tech-companies-mexico-city/
Monumental 🪦
纪念 🪦
📷 Nikon F4E
🎞️ Ilford HP5 Plus 400, expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite
Tech workers in Silicon Valley are increasingly experimenting with gray-market peptide drugs from China, legal for personal use, for improving focus and more (Jasmine Sun/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/03/bus…
Moody Urbanity - Old & New II 🔆
情绪化城市 - 新与旧 II 🔆
📷 Nikon FE
🎞️ Ilford HP5 Plus 400, expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite
Moody Urbanity - Past II 📴
情绪化城市 - 过去 II 📴
📷 Zeiss Ikon Super Ikonta 533/16
🎞️ Ilford HP5, expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite
Taiwan says China's cyberattacks on its hospitals, banks, energy, and other infrastructure rose 6% YoY in 2025 to an average of 2.63M attacks a day (Yimou Lee/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/chines
Urban Spots ✴️
城市噪点 ✴️
📷 Nikon F4E
🎞️ Ilford HP5 Plus 400, expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite
US startups are increasingly adopting Chinese open source AI models, as some capabilities of Chinese models start to catch up with those of frontier US labs (NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/innovation/silicon-valley-building-free-chinese-ai-r…
Moody Urbanity - Metro Consistency 📌
情绪化城市 - 都市质地 📌
📷 Pentax MX
🎞️ Orwo Wolfen P400
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite
Moody Urbanity - TWO II 2️⃣
情绪化城市 - 贰 II 2️⃣
📷 Nikon FE
🎞️ Fujifilm NEOPAN SS, expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite
Moody Urbanity - Past 📴
情绪化城市 - 过去 📴
📷 Zeiss Ikon Super Ikonta 533/16
🎞️ Ilford HP5, expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite
Taiwan's interior ministry announces a one-year ban on access to Chinese social media app Xiaohongshu, aka RedNote, citing 1,700 fraud cases since 2024 (Ben Blanchard/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/tai…
Sources: the Chinese government issues guidance requiring new data center projects that have received any state funds to only use domestically-made AI chips (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/china-bans-foreign-ai-c…
Moody Urbanity - Stand 🧍♂️
情绪化城市 - 立 🧍♂️
📷 Nikon FE
🎞️ Ilford HP5 Plus 400, expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite
XPeng says it plans to launch three self-developed robotaxis in 2026, the first Chinese EV maker to do so, using in-house chips and its own software system (Jiahui Huang/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/autos/xpeng-g