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technically, a sociologist | 哲♂学 | synthetic ethnography | algorithmic folklore | RTs ≠ RTs, Favs ≈ affect | unofficial account | very good at bad sweaters
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I'd pay to ban this dude
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when white people learn about an asian country
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Chinese streamers "using the flood to catch eyeballs", (HT Douban user chy)
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I studied the Chinese Internet for a decade, including several occasions of protest and civil unrest. It is time that I lay down how this is going to go. Buckle up: 🧵1/47
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I still believe in wet markets. Wet markets do not fail us. We fail wet markets.
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"a hole" in Stable Diffusion, one of the few prompts that I enjoy on a purely ontological appreciation level
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the literal end of critical theory
current head of the Frankfurt School Axel Honneth trying to get Zoom to work....welcome to the future everyone
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I don't fucking know. Nobody does. That's the whole point. Approaching the question from a predictive standpoint is epistemologically sus and in itself a precise political position that happens to be oriented in very peculiar ways
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I feel the fact that China has been largely COVID-free for months isn't discussed enough? Like life and economy are back to normal there and suddenly the country disappeared from the media? Am I crazy
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just keep pretending it's down
we can LARP the company out of existence
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2003: Dark culture
2014: Dark Enlightenment
2018: The Intellectual Dark Web
2021: The League of Extremely Dark Yet Wise Gentlemen
2028: The Darkest Ideologues of the Dark Fellowship of Darkness
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hope no one tells Christipher Nolan about the R/P FLIP boat
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the AstraZeneca fail is shaping up to be a metrology horror story in which Oxford doesn't trust the measurements of it's Italian manufacturer and messes up their own test, invalidating the whole vaccine trial
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fucking french people
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Chinese online cemeteries
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I found it... the ultimate Asian Wife Guy cringe
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virus: exists
academics: COVID era. Virocapitalism. Pandemic Citizenship. Post-Corona Episteme. Covidscapes. Epidemic Sociality. Viral Hermeneutics. Infectious Affect. Co-immunity. Covidocene. Contagious Ontologies. Vaccine Realism. Non-Representational Outbreaks. Mediated Disea
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get me this for Christmas
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I have seen many things in Taipei but this... this is the endgame
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1980: telling jokes
1990: sending chain emails
2000: posting memes
2010: shitposting dank memes
2020: filthsmearing pantagruelic laughstims
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fascinated by AI nationalism aesthetics - as tech and national sovereignty reshape one another, the only way to make sense of it seems overlaying flags and circuit boards
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American black metal is weird man
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one rarely talked factor in a massive demographic shift is the few people I create in my head
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it's on
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The more I do fieldwork in a Magic: The Gathering store, the more I think it's groundwork for understanding crypto circulation. MtG is the precursor of BitCoin. It's not chance that Mt. Gox was originally a MtG exchange market. It's desperately semiotized gambling
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wow this really blew up, check out my SoundCloud
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come work with me? I am hiring 2 postdocs to join my 4-year research project “Algorithmic folklore: The mutual shaping of vernacular creativity and automation” (ALGOFOLK) at the University of Bergen - looking for socsci&hum+tech people with global outlook
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when u major in cultural studies and open a cafe
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I've been itching to write this paragraph for exactly 3 years
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taking Ls like no other
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shoutout to a generation of grad students & early-career researchers who have kept academia functioning for an impossible year when they could have just walked out and let the sytem collapse, solely because they love their work, and will get absoluely nothing in return
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increasingly convinced that in 200-300 years our times will be named something like the Deluded Era in which we clearly knew which stuff was fucked up and how to fix it but we just carried on pretending it wasn't
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this is where it all started 7 years ago
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really want to read reporting on the U.S. written as if it was China
American People Are "Yeeting" Each Other As Passive Resistance
Does the Soyboy Phenomenon Hint at American Youth's Discontent With Meat Overconsumption?
Cheugy: The Identity Challenging the U.S. Government
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scifi story idea: generative text detectors start identifying several key theoretical texts from the 1800s as being AI-generated, and computer scientists can't explain why. Marx's Capital turns out to be entirely synthetic and possible retrotimed via unknown means
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now that I'm on all four
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when you article title is a banger
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SEELE is also doing pride month now?!?!
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a more upbeat take could be that generative models are precisely what's needed in order to navigate increasingly unwieldy repositories of data that transcend human sensory and attentional capacities
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there's only two kinds of academics
- hyperspecialized, clearly only person in the world dedicating so much energy to this singular topic, yet constantly prey of impostor syndrome
- superstar academic who applies one concept from their PhD thesis to literally every world event
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"Oh that's great, you study China... you know what, you should do research about:
2006: Subcultural resistance
2008: Civil society
2010: Weibo
2012: Censorship
2013: Millennials
2014: WeChat
2015: e-payments
2016: AI
2017: Bitcoin
2018: The social credit system
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my latest kink: "It would be easy, therefore, to miss an industrial civilization that only lasted 100,000 years—which would be 500 times longer than our industrial civilization has made it so far."
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my favorite fact of today
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can't believe I'm 3/4 done writing this mess, press the heart icon to support my curse
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I just came across the following term: "glonacal" (for global, national and local). Academics must be stopped
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algorithms don't recognize video frames if you paint them (yet) (@一大群袁玮)
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a postcolonial story in two acts
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XI Jinping implies the existence of a more beloved VIII Jinping and VII Jinping
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LibGen & Sci-Hub as infrastructure
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wrote a history of machine-readable encoding standards, with a focus on the QR code and how it became an infrastructural gateway - with an attempt at theorizing the broader usefulness of this concept for infrastructure studies - out for
@GCHjournal
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Xi Jinping mentioning 内卷 and 躺平 has extremely boomer energy, big fail imho
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deepfakes are called 换脸 in China, and I wrote an article about it
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my current take: these models can't do much beyond ungovernable surrealism and weird style mashups, so AI companies are scrambling to sell them through the vocabulary of art
A glimpse of our early work with artists and filmmakers to see how Sora can help bring ideas into reality:
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just spent half an hour to connect to the Tsinghua University BBS over telnet with the right GB-2312 character set, still active in 2018 and here's a native resolution screenshot
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you see, the English term 'protest' actually is a combination of the characters 'pro' and 'test', so people are actually supporting mass testing
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damn now McDonalds showing sick Hito Steyerl works
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the evolution of animal camouflage patterns is basically deep time GANs
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when the ontology hits
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Forensic Architecture should hire this guy tbh
168 william st, nyc. you can order it by asking for "the rainbolt".
do not gatekeep.
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this is basically how I argue pretty much anything in academia
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literally dying en masse to prove that you can sacrifice some civilians to own the Chinese
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earliest QR code in history
TIL about the "star gauge" poem, a legendary non-linear love poem (or perhaps more appropriately, poem-matrix) which Su Hui used to win her husband back.
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I've spent the past month writing a thing on AI in China, some takeaways:
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thought experiment how long would have Clubhouse lasted in China without getting blocked if Western journalists hadn't hyped it up? Is it maybe time to reconsider the journo-to-authorities pipeline
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God give me the confidence of a white man in his late thirties operating a modular synthesizer
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men would literally stage a coup rather than do aerobics
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extremely proud to introduce the world to my new company
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when an important task you forgot suddenly appears in your mind after 5 hours of mindless browsing the web
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I think I figured it out
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so almost ten years ago I started writing about trolling on Chinese social media, published a broader article on the concept of 文明 and uncivil practices, and now a detailed examination of 穆黑 as extreme speech is out here
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As academia became more competitive, high-achiever types flocked to it & outperformed the weirdos who used to populate it; the result is widespread unhappiness, bc academia is more suited to ppl who obsess over Aristotle's theory of sleep than ppl who want to change the world.
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