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The Bizarre Lives of Chinese Internet Memes

And 3 Things They Reveal About How China is Governed — Though they are likely not the first place one might think to look, Chinese internet memes reveal a lot about how the country is governed. …

China

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The Bizarre Lives of Chinese Internet Memes
The Bizarre Lives of Chinese Internet Memes
China

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Taxicab Chinese

The story of how I became fluent in Chinese sitting in the passenger seat — I rustled into the back seat of the taxi as the door clicked shut behind me. It was dark and well past midnight. My driver was still outside chucking luggage in the boot. Glancing through the window, I saw the cigarette in his mouth flare orange as he took a…

Mwc Reentry

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Taxicab Chinese
Taxicab Chinese
Mwc Reentry

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Digital Diplomacy

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A Faceless Company Knows Me Better Than My Own Mother

I’ve been made to adore my phone over any lover — Scrolling mindlessly on my device for the fifth time today. Primed for the little red notification that will send dopamine bliss my way. Faces of people I hardly know pass by in a pixelated blur. Alleged social connection, but within my beating chest no feelings stir. On the street and…

Social Media

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A Faceless Company Knows Me Better Than My Own Mother
A Faceless Company Knows Me Better Than My Own Mother
Social Media

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Dec 1, 2022

How Dating Apps Can Change You

It’s tough out there in the digital dating hall — I’d summon the passion of a warrior-poet prior to his penultimate demise, to see the dance of fire in my lover’s eyes. Feel the softness of her tender embrace, admirably observe the contours of her beautiful face. Caress the parting rivers of her fragrant hair, count myself lucky for knowing…

Dating

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How Dating Apps Can Change You
How Dating Apps Can Change You
Dating

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Oct 3, 2022

What impact does the Social Credit System have on person-person relations in China?

We conducted interviews with residents from twenty different Chinese cities and a national survey to find out — One question researchers still know very little about concerning people’s lived experience under the Social Credit System (SCS) in China is how being blacklisted actually impacts the quality of person-to-person relationships. Aside from formal state restrictions like being barred from flying or purchasing luxury goods and items, blacklisting also results…

Social Credit System

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What impact does the Social Credit System have on person-person relations in China?
What impact does the Social Credit System have on person-person relations in China?
Social Credit System

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Sep 14, 2022

An Ode to Bessel Van Der Kolk’s ‘The Body Keeps the Score’

Call it biology but it feels like mad reality. When thoughts hurtle around at the speed of insanity Appearing before intention is put to purpose. Few words in mind fit to be of service Entire life slave to the beat. …

Trauma

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An Ode to Bessel Van Der Kolk’s ‘The Body Keeps the Score’
An Ode to Bessel Van Der Kolk’s ‘The Body Keeps the Score’
Trauma

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Dec 13, 2021

What is there to learn from China’s control of recommendation algorithms?

Examining the difference between a proactive versus reactive approach towards the regulation of social media — Authoritarian leaders have been watching recent events in the US and other liberal democracies closely. Cyber-interference has a covert ring to it, perhaps imagined as the hacking of key infrastructure or the scrambling of military hardware for war-time purposes. However, the reality is that much of said interference today is…

China

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What is there to learn from China’s control of recommendation algorithms?
What is there to learn from China’s control of recommendation algorithms?
China

13 min read


Oct 6, 2020

How to Cultivate a Samurai Mentality for the Modern Era

Learn from the warrior, adopt his mentality. Shield yourself from modern life and its comfortable depravity. — What does it mean to be a Samurai? One who lives and dies to usher a battlecry. To emerge unscathed from the danger of battle. No space can be made for distraction nor idle prattle. Fronting the vanguard on the attack and holding the line in retreat. …

Philosophy

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How to Cultivate a Samurai Mentality for the Modern Era
How to Cultivate a Samurai Mentality for the Modern Era
Philosophy

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Sep 4, 2020

Poetry for a Time of Disruption

What to think and how to cope, this poem is for you, its words are hope — When the outlook for the future is grim and the world appears bleak What is it we ought to pay attention to, pursue, and seek? Personal and collective journeys put on hold thanks to a tiny, abstract killer Hopes and dreams suspended, the fragility of civilisation has never felt realer …

Poetry

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Poetry for a Time of Disruption
Poetry for a Time of Disruption
Poetry

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The Startup

·May 17, 2020

Control at the Expense of Freedom?

AI, big data, and the cost of surveillance capitalism — “The same tools that can be used to sell me something I don’t really need can now be used to sell me a politician I really don’t need or an ideology that I really don’t need. It’s the same tools. It’s the same hacking of the human animal and manipulating…

Surveillance

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Control at the Expense of Freedom?
Control at the Expense of Freedom?
Surveillance

9 min read

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