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@ChinafakeWiki@mastodon.social
2024-11-28 10:44:09

turn of the century chinafakes are something else

A chinafake toy gun that resembles Harry Potter on a broomstick with an owl. One of his hands is pointing at something, and is very large and made out of translucent green plastic with an LED inside. The whole thing is very off-looking, has a weird paint job, and Harry's face is that of an eldritch horror. The whole toy is covered in minor damage from wear (scratches, paint worn down, etc) and small amounts of grime and dirt here and there, presumably from storage.
A slightly more zoomed-out image of the same toy.
The other side of the toy, which is identical albeit mirrored. It has speaker holes and a model number of "NO.918-20" molded into it.
A close up of the initial side of the toy, but focused more on the lower half and battery compartment this time.
@KraftTea@mastodon.social
2024-12-17 23:05:07

This situation actually reminds me a bit of the dotcom bubble collapse in the late '90s / early '00s, with slight differences.
Declining stocks & VC led to a bunch of startups initially being unable to obtain additional funding. To make matters worse, ad demand started falling, leading to lower revenues for ad-based internet services.
In this case, a decline of ad demand is trailing dotcom revenue shortages. I suspect currency & stock weakness & a slowing econ…

@relcfp@mastodon.social
2024-12-04 05:40:08

[ February 21, 2025] Conference or similar: On Morality and Revelation: A book symposium on Amir Saemi's Morality and Revelation in Islamic Thought and Beyond (OUP, 2024) philevents.org/event/show/1298

On Morality and Revelation: A book symposium on Amir Saemi's Morality and Revelation in Islamic Thought and Beyond (OUP, 2024)
This online workshop is a book symposium on Amir Saemi's Morality and Revelation in Islamic Thought and Beyond: A New Problem of Evil (OUP, 2024), which will later be published in AGATHEOS – European Journal for Philosophy of Religion. The program: 8:30 – 10 am (est) Speaker A: Robert Audi     Speaker B: Lara Buchak Speaker C: Imraz Aijaz                 10:15 – 11-45 am (est) Speaker A: Farbod Akhlaghi Respose: Amir Saemi Open discussion