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Tianyu Fang

@tfa.ng
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PhD student in history of science at Harvard. Researcher of technology and culture. Previously Chaoyang Trap

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Tianyu Fang @tfa.ng · 14/01/2025
according to this 2019 interview, the red in xiaohongshu/rednote was a reference to the color of stanford graduate school of business and bain capital, where the founder studied and worked, not chairman mao m.36kr.com/p/1724258762...
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Tianyu Fang @tfa.ng · 31/12/2024
Justin Smith on Semafor’s (so far failed) attempt to engage with China www.semafor.com/article/12/2...
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Tianyu Fang @tfa.ng · 10/12/2024
always wear a tie with colors that match the weird jail you’ll stumble upon that day
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Tianyu Fang @tfa.ng · 03/12/2024
The plan: Post your dissertation abstract online to rekindle a decades-long controversy about the utility of the humanities, turning your paper into the most-read publication in the history of your field
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Tianyu Fang @tfa.ng · 20/11/2024
it’s great to be back in washington dc
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Tianyu Fang @tfa.ng · 19/11/2024
how the turntables
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Tianyu Fang @tfa.ng · 19/10/2023
are you saying this blue boi isn't accelerationist?
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Tianyu Fang @tfa.ng · 18/10/2023
marc andreessen quoting editor of the official guide to the 2010 shanghai expo has been the most successful china soft power win since the invention of the printing press
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Tianyu Fang @tfa.ng · 27/09/2023
this is so weird
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Tianyu Fang @tfa.ng · 16/08/2023
Here are the revenue numbers from ccTLD domain sales (.ai) in Anguilla, as percentage of total government revenue, since 2015. Data from GovAI (also known as the Government of Anguilla).
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Tianyu Fang @tfa.ng · 24/07/2023
Gonna tell my kids this is San Francisco
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Tianyu Fang @tfa.ng · 04/07/2023
PARENTS BE WARNED
IS YOUR CHILD TEXTING ABOUT CYBERNETICS?

What your feedback-obsessed teen's text messages actually mean: 

brb — bots resemble brains
idc — iteration decides computation
lol — loop on linguistics
lmao — let mcculloch analogize operations
smh — self-sustaining mechanized humans
gtfo — game theory feedback output
stfu — sensor technology for ultrastability
idgaf — information determines goal-seeking autonomous functions
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Tianyu Fang @tfa.ng · 30/05/2023
one of them is not like the others
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Tianyu Fang @tfa.ng · 19/05/2023
Today’s read: the 2016 PhD monograph “Ius Doni” by Christian Kälin, the Henley and Partners chairman who famously made passports a commodity by pioneering citizenship by investment schemes
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Tianyu Fang @tfa.ng · 19/05/2023
Today’s read: the 2016 PhD monograph “Ius Doni” by Christian Kälin, the Henley and Partners chairman who famously made passports a commodity by pioneering citizenship by investment schemes
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Tianyu Fang @tfa.ng · 13/05/2023
Unlocking a new airline
Smurf-themed cabin of a Brussels Airlines A320
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Tianyu Fang @tfa.ng · 01/05/2023
In the 1980s, Chinese scientists became fascinated with somatic science—magazines and newspapers reported on cases of extrasensory perception, and the public began practicing qigong, seen as a traditionalist form of ESP. Here are 3 geologists writing about locating mines using the sixth sense:
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Tianyu Fang @tfa.ng · 15/04/2023
guernsey 🇬🇬
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Tianyu Fang @tfa.ng · 30/03/2023
first bsky in china
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Tianyu Fang @tfa.ng · 19/02/2023
View from BART
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Tianyu Fang @tfa.ng · 12/02/2023
dating for the maladjusted
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Tianyu Fang @tfa.ng · 06/02/2023
new phone who dis
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