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The Heartbreakers:
🎵 Chinese Rocks
#TheHeartbreakers
https://johnnythunderstheheartbreakers.bandcamp.com/track/chinese-rocks-yonkers-demo
https://open.spotify.com/track/0oXw08kbTaXumYDNV9gQWL
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都市构图 IV
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https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/jun/15/uk-woefully-ill-protected-against-chinese-and-russian-undersea-cable-sabotage
UK ‘woefully’ ill-protected against Chinese and Russian undersea cable sabo…
Sources: Chinese AI startup MiniMax files confidentially for a Hong Kong IPO, targeting a $4B valuation and aiming to raise $510M , set to float by 2025's end (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific
Evaluating LLMs on Chinese Idiom Translation
Cai Yang, Yao Dou, David Heineman, Xiaofeng Wu, Wei Xu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.10421 https://arxiv.org/pdf/…
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Chinese Man:
🎵 Wolf
#NowPlaying #ChineseMan
https://chinese-man.bandcamp.com/track/wolf-chapelier-fou-remix
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Two things can be true, even if they seem in opposition.
Hitler's race law was based on Jim Crow. Lebensraum was a direct translation of Manifest Destiny to Europe. The genocide of indigenous Americans was the inspiration and roadmap for the Holocaust. Red Summer was a genocide event. Chinese exclusion was a genocide event. The genocide of indigenous Americans continued, and the Dakota Access Pipeline is an example of that continuance.
And... Trumpian fascism is new phase of America that's markedly different than anything that anyone alive had ever experienced. Trump was inspired by Hitler's speeches and read them regularly. He admires Hitler and tries to emulate him. The language he used during his first campaign were developed by Neonazi groups like Aryan Brotherhood working with the KKK. His image was shaped by white and Christian nationalists, as is his platform today. He is a new and more dangerous kind of monster. The death camps are new. The scale of what's happening is new. The concentration of power is new.
These can both be true, and are.
#USPol
A Little-Known Microsoft Program Could Expose the Defense Department to Chinese Hackers (ProPublica)
https://www.propublica.org/article/microsoft-digital-escorts-pentagon-defense-department-china-hackers
http://www.memeorandum.com/250715/p104#a250715p104
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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…
Microsoft is using engineers in China
to help maintain the Defense Department’s computer systems
— with minimal supervision by U.S. personnel
— leaving some of the nation’s most sensitive data vulnerable to hacking from its leading cyber adversary,
a ProPublica investigation has found.
The arrangement, which was critical to Microsoft winning the federal government’s cloud computing business a decade ago,
relies on U.S. citizens with security clearances to …
Ford CEO Jim Farley is gearing up to compete with Chinese EVs by revamping their assembly line and introducing a new electric truck in 2027. #climatechange #climatesolutions #climate
A look at MicroCo, a Hollywood startup aiming to tap into the micro drama craze, as Chinese apps gain US traction with millions of downloads, per Sensor Tower (Brooks Barnes/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/1…
"We moeten straks niet gaan zeuren over oneerlijke Chinese energieprijzen"
#EnergieTransitie
#ElectroState
https://…
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都市构图 V
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A Little-Known Microsoft Program Could Expose the Defense Department to Chinese Hackers
https://www.propublica.org/article/microsoft-digital-escorts-pentagon-defense-department-china-hackers
The geopolitical #aiarmsrace seems largely unimpressed by people proclaiming #LLMs have plateaued and #AGI is never coming.
Such assessments are only relevant for the market, but not so much for count…
Conference> Chinese Buddhist Philosophy: From Three Treatises to Five Schools, 7-8 August 2025, Vienna https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20120484/conference-chinese-buddhist-philosophy-three-treatises-five-…
China pledges deeper support for Russia amid Trump tariff threats: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/15/china-pledges-deeper-support-for.html
Chinese state media: researchers successfully implanted a brain-computer interface in a tetraplegia patient in March, the second country after the US to do so (Karoline Kan/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
Am honest opinion of 2 Chinese factories.
(The presenter is one of the top woodworking channels on YouTube.)
https://youtu.be/t2TfbN3v8h8
This is completely crazy if you think about digital sovereignty....
#spain
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巷弄故事 🔣
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Great piece on how one settler-colonial state #China, supports another settled-colonial state, #Israel, in quietly helping fund the displacement of #Palestinians.
Shouldn't be a surprise except to tank…
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https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c07d2dyx19zo
The firm says it aims to reduce "accent discrimination" experienced by workers when callers fail to understand them.
But it can also lead to a range of more convincing deepfakes, no?
Fine-Grained Chinese Hate Speech Understanding: Span-Level Resources, Coded Term Lexicon, and Enhanced Detection Frameworks
Zewen Bai, Liang Yang, Shengdi Yin, Yuanyuan Sun, Hongfei Lin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11292
An Interpretable AI framework Quantifying Traditional Chinese Medicine Principles Towards Enhancing and Integrating with Modern Biomedicine
Haoran Li, Xingye Cheng, Ziyang Huang, Jingyuan Luo, Qianqian Xu, Qiguang Zhao, Tianchen Guo, Yumeng Zhang, Linda Lidan Zhong, Zhaoxiang Bian, Leihan Tang, Aiping Lyu, Liang Tian
https://arx…
VisFinEval: A Scenario-Driven Chinese Multimodal Benchmark for Holistic Financial Understanding
Zhaowei Liu, Xin Guo, Haotian Xia, Lingfeng Zeng, Fangqi Lou, Jinyi Niu, Mengping Li, Qi Qi, Jiahuan Li, Wei Zhang, Yinglong Wang, Weige Cai, Weining Shen, Liwen Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.09641
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城市特征 IV 🌆
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Chinese couriers carrying 80 TB of hot data into Kuala Lumpur to feed into an AI, in this early 80s William Gibson short story.
https://www.wsj.com/tech/china-ai-chip-curb-suitcases-7c47dab1
Sad and hilarious: China twists Trump’s arm into giving up on his plans to go after Chinese students in the US, and he capitulates in order to…just get back to what he already had before he started his trade war.
“This is a Chinese TACO” says one trade expert.
https://mastodon.social/@thejapantimes/114674231825128493
Toward High-Precision Astrometry with CSST Using Multi-Gaussian Fitting of PSF
Jialu Nie, Peng Wei, Zihuang Cao, Yibo Yan, Chao Liu, Hao Tian, Xin Zhang, Haijun Tian
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.10329
Absolutely incredible photos in this article:
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wiki_talk: Wikipedia talk networks
Interactions among users of 10 language-specific Wikipedias: Arabic, Chinese, Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish. Nodes are registered wiki editors, and an edge represents a user i having written a message on user j's talk page. Edges are timestamped. The precise dates of the snapshots are uncertain.
This network has 155820 nodes and 1358426 edges.
Tags: Social, Communication, Unweighted, Multigra…
How Benchmark's investment in Chinese startup Manus has highlighted a philosophical divide in Silicon Valley over China, patriotism, and the pursuit of profit (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-07-1…
Designing conflict-based communicative tasks in Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language with ChatGPT
Xia Li (LIDILEM)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09089 https…
Conference> Chinese Buddhist Philosophy: From Three Treatises to Five Schools, 7-8 August 2025, Vienna
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H-Diplo Article Review 934 on Nannichi. “In the Shadow of Back-Channels: Britain and the Berlin…
via Input 4 RELCFP
Computing's weekly roundup of tech news in Asia. This time we look at the attempted extradition by the US of an alleged Chinese hacker of vaccine secrets who was arrested in Italy last week, and fast-fashion ecommerce company Shein’s plans to go public
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CrowdStrike: Chinese hacking attacks on US targets were up 2x from 2024 to 330 incidents in 2025; US officials say China has shifted to "hacking-for-hire" (Joseph Menn/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/07/16/china-hackin…
Urban Composition III
都市构图 III
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Some talk locally about what the persistent carrier signal is at 7.235 MHz that often (but not always) interferes with one of our local ARES nets. I'm convinced it's the North Korean station that transmits a few hours weekly, in Korean, Chinese and English. My gut feeling is that they transmit a bare carrier when there is no program, to hold the frequency.
Any other ideas? It's a huge signal; I suspect it's not in any way local to California.
The #reentry of the Chinese Zhuque-2E upper stage 2025-103G over Kazachstan on 5 June 2025: https://sattrackcam.blogspot.com/2025/06/the-reentry-of-chinese-zhuque-2e-upper.html - this had caused even more confusion and excitement than usual ...
National Guard hacked by Chinese ‘Salt Typhoon’ campaign for nearly a year, DHS memo says
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/security/national-guard-was-hacked-chinas-salt-typhoon-group-dhs-says-rcna218648
Investigation: Microsoft uses engineers in China to help maintain US DOD systems, with minimal supervision by US personnel, leaving sensitive data vulnerable (ProPublica)
https://www.propublica.org/article/microsoft-digital-escorts-penta…
Jensen Huang hailed AI models from DeepSeek, Alibaba, and Tencent as "world class" at a Beijing expo and said US licenses for H20 chips "will come very fast" (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/nvidias-huang-hail…
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…
Chinese National Pleads Guilty to Exporting Protected Turtles (US Department of Justice)
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/chinese-national-pleads-guilty-exporting-protected-turtles
http://www.memeorandum.com/250812/p8#a250812p8
The thing about US tech executives signing up for the US military, is how it looks outside the US.
The US would certainly regard a Chinese company, with an executive who is in the army, as untrustworthy.
https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/13/us_army_techies/
Chinese drones, Russia's failure, and the split in OPEC — consequences for Ukraine: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/11/chinese-drones-russias-failure-and.html
The German foreign ministry has summoned the Chinese ambassador in Berlin after a Chinese warship used a laser to target a German aircraft taking part in an EU operation helping to protect shipping in the Red Sea.
“The endangerment of German personnel and disruption of the operation are completely unacceptable,” the ministry said on X.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/11/politics/chinese-hackers-suspected-law-firm-hack Chinese hackers hacked into the most powerful telecom and communications law firm in DC and maybe the world. Founded by former FCC chairman and true gentleman Dick Wiley.
A four-day US military drone exercise in Alaska exposed significant technological and operational gaps compared to Chinese and Russian drone capabilities (Farah Stockman/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/13/business/drones-us-military-manu…
Ukraine detains two Chinese nationals for attempted espionage: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/09/ukraine-detains-two-chinese-nationals.html
LLMs vs. Chinese Anime Enthusiasts: A Comparative Study on Emotionally Supportive Role-Playing
Lanlan Qiu, Xiao Pu, Yeqi Feng, Tianxing He
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.06388 https…
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Among the vast number of characters in the Chinese language
— around 100,000, by some estimates
— there are hundreds that no one alive knows how to pronounce.
They are written down, plain as day, in old books, but their sounds, even their meanings, have been lost.
Sitting in his office, wondering at how something seemingly immortalized in print could be forgotten, Dr. Mullaney went down a mental rabbit hole.
It would have been physically impossible to build a t…
Ukraine detains 2 Chinese nationals suspected of spying on Neptune missile technology, SBU says: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/09/ukraine-detains-chinese-nationals-suspected.html
China's vision for its autonomous vehicle industry, backed by state support and infrastructure investment, is driving its lead in ADAS and robotaxi deployment (Yi-Ling Liu/Rest of World)
https://restofworld.org/2025/china-ai-powered-self-driving-cars/
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Each week, Metacurity offers our free and paid subscribers a weekly digest of the best long-form (and longish) infosec-related pieces we couldn't properly fit into our daily news crush.
This week's selection covers
--Satellite jamming and spoofing set back global shipping,
--AI is inherently janky,
--Salvadoran gender freedom advocates fight oppression with digital training,
--A new sector arises to fight AI false positives in Chinese universities,
How Chinese AI companies bypass US chip restrictions by transporting hard drives with AI training data to Malaysian data centers housing advanced Nvidia chips (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/china-ai-chip-cur
In the Air - Outside of the Window ✈️ ☁️
在空中 - 窗外 ✈️ ☁️
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Jensen Huang says Chinese military is unlikely to use Nvidia's AI chips, citing the risk of the chips being "limited at any time" due to US export restrictions (Ian King/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
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Urban Solitude V 🈳
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Jensen Huang says Nvidia will exclude the Chinese market from its revenue and profit forecasts going forward, amid US restrictions on chip sales to China (CNN)
http://www.cnn.com/2025/06/12/tech/nvidia-ceo-china-us-ai-chip-exports
Lenovo reports Q1 revenue up 22% YoY to $18.8B, vs. $17.4B est., and net profit surged 108% YoY to $505M, vs. $307.7M est., despite challenges from US tariffs (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/chinese-pc-maker-lenovo-q1-prof…
City Snaps - Chengdu / A Rain in Park ☔️
城市抓拍 - 成都 / 雨中的公园 ☔️
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City Snaps - Chengdu / A Rain in Park ☔️
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Sources: Chinese diplomats agree to a six-month ease of rare-earth export licenses, with the earliest application approval within a week of the deal's signing (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/world/china/beijing-pu
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Chinese chip equipment supplier E-Town sues Applied Materials in the Beijing IP Court over alleged trade secret theft; Applied Materials hired two E-Town staff (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-08-13/u…
Natura Urbana XII 🏡
城市自然 XII 🏡
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Chinese open-source AI models from DeepSeek, Alibaba's Qwen, and others gaining global traction spurs US policymakers and companies to respond (Raffaele Huang/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/chinas-l…
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Moonshot's Kimi K2 uses a 1T-parameter MoE architecture with 32B active parameters and outperforms models like GPT-4.1 and DeepSeek-V3 on key benchmarks (Michael Nuñez/VentureBeat)
https://venturebeat.com/ai/moonshot-ais-kimi-k2-outperfor…
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Natura Urbana XI 🏡
城市自然 XI 🏡
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Natura Urbana XIII 🏡
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Test Roll No. 2 of an Ilford HP4 120, ceased production at 1976, Super Ikonta 533/16, “scanned” by my iPhone
一卷用蔡司超级伊康塔533/16拍摄的Ilford HP4 120, 1976年停产。用iPhone翻拍玩玩,扫描仪扫不了120
#filmphotography #Photography
Self Portrait Study 🖼️
自我小像研究 🖼️
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City Snaps - Chengdu / Freeze Frame II ⌛️
城市抓拍 - 成都 / 静帧 II ⌛️
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Facade 🏢
立面 🏢
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City Snaps - Chengdu / Freeze Frame ⏳
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Natura Urbana VIII 🏡
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