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aspirational service top. scorpio sun, taurus rising, virgo moon.

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xiaowei @xrw.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
belated summer share: i wrote a piece about pasolini, AI, art, fascism and my love of the film Salò for The Ideas Letter www.theideasletter.org/essay/conten...
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Wang draws on Pier Paolo Pasolini's Salò—a film of deliberate, overwhelming depravity—to argue that generative AI extends a consumerist logic that mistakes choice for freedom and participation for dem...
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Zeyi Yang 杨泽毅 @zeyiyang.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
I'm very disappointed to learn that WIRED had shut down Made in China, the newsletter my editor Louise and I created together. We published 52 issues in the past year, broke a ton of exclusives, had immense fun, and built a voice that truly care about China, the good and the bad.
A screenshot of the story titled "Why Everyone Is Suddenly in a ‘Very Chinese Time’ in Their Lives"A screenshot of the story titled "Chinese Drivers Are Using Tiny Plastic Heads to Fool Tesla’s Autopilot Safeguards"A screenshot of the story titled "Africa Is Buying a Record Number of Chinese Solar Panels"A screenshot of the story titled "A Wave of Unexplained Bot Traffic Is Sweeping the Web"
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xiaowei @xrw.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
ok i really want to teach a short module for communications students on governance that breaks down what we mean when we say things like "communism" "socialism" "authoritarianism" "democracy" etc but i want to use clueless outfits/fashion as a metaphor
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xiaowei @xrw.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
chicago winter starter pack: rei down coat (40% off deal), happy light, humidifier i think i will be ok but ask me in march lol
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David Palumbo-Liu @palumboliu.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
We discuss how  these technologies materialize in settler colonial practices, and end with how people are fighting back, creating alternate software, hardware, and cultural and social practices that offer a much less violent and dismal world than the one technofascism wants us to be hypnotized by.
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David Palumbo-Liu @palumboliu.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
We discuss how  these technologies materialize in settler colonial practices, and end with how people are fighting back, creating alternate software, hardware, and cultural and social practices that offer a much less violent and dismal world than the one technofascism wants us to be hypnotized by.
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xiaowei @xrw.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
a question for all the investigative crime reporters out there: - why is my foia request for a 1969 murder police report denied? - why is the case still open? - when do cases close?
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xiaowei @xrw.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
serious academic protocol question from a millenial: we use outlook at my university and is it weird to heart emoji emails from my department chair and a dean that don't require long responses?
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xiaowei @xrw.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
i just got another hospital bill and lololololed cause what else am i gonna do 20$ for tylenol!? 🤪
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xiaowei @xrw.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
i use so much passive voice in writing as of late and it's horrifying and there's definitely some psychoanalytical explanation in there
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Serife (Sherry) Wong @serife.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
New art video just dropped! The 7 Trillion Dollar Seance 🔮 This is meant to be performed live, recited in front of the video at conferences, museums, public events. It got a standing ovation at Tech Together in NYC. Your phone works but best on your largest screen. vimeo.com/1116289621 🧵
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The 7 Trillion Dollar Seance
Şerife Wong The 7 Trillion Dollar Seance 2025 Original score by Jeromey Cooks (rikuwru) This video is part of Icarus Salon. It is intended to be viewed in…
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Dorothy R. Santos, Ph.D. @drs.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Thank you 🙏🏽 to @tamigraph.bsky.social, Jeffrey Moro, and Briana Vecchione for editing this cluster on Algorithms and the Occult for @asapjournal.bsky.social 🧙🏾 Always grateful to @xrw.bsky.social and AX Mina for, well, everything 🖤
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Brian Hioe @brianhioe.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Important intervention as an act of solidarity by Sinophone artists against the Chinese state’s efforts to conduct political censorship of artists in one of Thailand’s leading artistic institutions
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xiaowei @xrw.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
hot take that i feel like as scholars in the digital tech x china space we're struggling rn with is 1) how to square away techno-orientalism if you aren't writing from position within the US/europe (aka majority of world)
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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Americans desperate to copy WeChat without understanding anything about the context of its success
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Adam Quinn @adamquinnphd.com · 14/10/2025
There seems to be a concerted effort by AI boosters lately to deny this & act like critics are ignorant (or insist it's fine because AI will be smart enough to solve climate change and energy shortages). But energy usage data and projections remain astronomical.
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xiaowei @xrw.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
deep in a character study of scorpio men, god, scorp men are crazzzy
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xiaowei @xrw.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
🥰 gotta love the aunties. me: "i'm in chicago now for a job at northwestern" auntie: "chicago is colder than san francisco. drink hot things and dress warmly!"
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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 12/10/2025
Tomorrow in San Francisco: @jacobsilverman.com and @alexhanna.bsky.social at Litquake. 7 p.m. See you there? litquake2025.sched.com/event/28YrM/...
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Litquake 2025: Gilded Rage—Elon Musk and the Radicaliza...
View more about this event at Litquake 2025
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Tamara Kneese @tamigraph.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
📦🔋🌱Global Circuits, a new series on environmental justice and the AI supply chain, co-sponsored by (m)otherboard, Green Screen Coalition, & @datasociety.bsky.social Climate, Technology, and Justice program
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Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Global Circuits | Session 1, from mining to chip manufacture in the Congo and Taiwan. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining...
Join us for our first session in the Global Circuits speaker series where we draw connections and forge solidarity from the Congo to Taiwan. We are lucky to host Maurice Carney, Executive Director at ...
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xiaowei @xrw.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
everytime i read a post about digital humanities and arcgis storymaps i cry a little on the inside background, esri is a baddie in the bad way & there's plenty of open source alternatives: www.societyandspace.org/articles/bey...
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Beyond Esri: Moving Toward Abolition in Geography
We call on geographers, planners, geo-spatial analysts, and all spatial thinkers to divest themselves from the creation of carceral space.
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xiaowei @xrw.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
caught up with my gen-z cousin in beijing and damn THE INTERNET WORKED y'all, we have reached THE END OF HISTORY she schooled me for 2 hours (while also side eyeing my life choices) and told me that: 1) there's no use busting your ass at work bc promotions are arbitrary/based on sucking up
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xiaowei @xrw.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
tfw doctors are like "you need a surgery where we put a tiny camera in you" and you're like, no thanks dude, i don't want cameras on me or in me, ever.
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xiaowei @xrw.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
wow finally got an mri appointment after 7 months of insurance insanity, can't wait to get pumped full of rare earth and lie in a tube for 40 minutes
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xiaowei @xrw.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
oh no they put me and my frands into a computer and i can't get out
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xiaowei @xrw.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
eeeee a friend just read a draft of a short speculative fiction story i wrote and texted: omg. my jaw is on the floor. now just have to find a place to publish it 🙏 putting this wish out into the universe.
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Alex Hanna @alexhanna.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
STARTING IN TWO HOURS! See you there.
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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Americans under 25 have no idea how anomalous and deranged it is for the news to report obsessively on the persona and psychology of the executive with respect to matters of policy and governance. This is not even remotely normal.
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Elle @elleisanisland.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
executive order shutting down twitter in 3, 2,
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xiaowei @xrw.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
my poor friends and lovers who i force to suddenly drop everything and read something i wrote while i hover over them, blinking and rubbing my hands like an over eager squirrel
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xiaowei @xrw.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
"We could call it spreadsheet culture in hyperdrive, a world in which all data can be translated into summary language and all language into optimized data with nothing more than a prompt. " www.theideasletter.org/essay/our-sp...
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Our Spreadsheet Overlords - The Ideas Letter
Weatherby argues that the current discourse around AI, especially the buzz around “artificial general intelligence,” is a distraction from its actual impact: the expansion of bureaucracy through massi...
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Melanie Mitchell @melaniemitchell.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Amazing account of ChatGPT's sycophancy and confabulation on steroids. amandaguinzburg.substack.com/p/diabolus-e...
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Diabolus Ex Machina
This Is Not An Essay
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Spider-Man: Pre-owned Day @redderbeanpaste.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
I talked with @arthurkaufman.bsky.social about China work and responsibilities as practitioners on Gaza thelasttrain.substack.com/p/doing-what...
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Doing What's Easy vs. Doing What's Right
Rui Zhong draws a connection between China-watchers' responsibilities towards China, the US, and Palestine.
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Lauren McKenzie @themckenziest.gay · 31/05/2025
Please stop calling my life crisis “mid”
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xiaowei @xrw.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
"in summary, as assistant professor at fancy university i would be thrilled to teach a class on archival research titled 'how to do archival research and not make the same mistakes i did and months after your archive visit end up drinking before noon staring at a pile of unordered pdfs'..."
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xiaowei @xrw.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
ugh writing is so hard ugh
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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
I see this fallacy almost every day, in tech and politics: 1. There is a problem 2. We believe that our solution will fix the problem 3. We built the solution 4. Therefore the problem is now fixed Bitch, no. You have to check. Let's talk about leading and trailing indicators.
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xiaowei @xrw.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
mostly just annoyed that 'vibe-coding' is now a real term that refers to computers coding and not the act of diligently pursuing some new age woo-woo stuff so that you can get aspirational vibes for the person you want to be
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xiaowei @xrw.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
🫠 the longer i spend in academia having to write papers the more i'm like "ok i am not meant for this life" but props to those who can do it just gotta think about this sunk cost fallacy thing
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xiaowei @xrw.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
listen, i have to say one of the most joyous, life affirming, nourishing things i've done recently is to stop reading as much news about generative AI and instead i took a poetry class. highly recommend the sheer beauty of certain words is.... indescribable.
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xiaowei @xrw.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
desperately wishing and hoping to get Nathan Fielder tackling the tech industry in the next season of The Rehearsal
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xiaowei @xrw.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
just looked up from grading to hear my partner yell "AGGGGGH my job is so boring now because of AI!!!!!"
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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 20/05/2025
my nine-year-old kid is on a 700+ day streak on Duolingo and he knows how to order both beer and wine in German, so I'm going to go out on a limb and suggest that perhaps we still actually need schools.
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Tamara Kneese @tamigraph.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Happy book release day to @emilymbender.bsky.social and @alexhanna.bsky.social! If you’re in the Bay Area, I’m moderating a little convo with the esteemed authors of the AI Con at Clio’s this Sunday afternoon
Copy of The AI Con: How to fight big tech’s hype and create the future we want with my blue hand book mark
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xiaowei @xrw.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
lololol bruh gen ai you had one job! which was to tell me the playoffs schedule!
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Lilly Irani @gleemie.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Anita's talk at UCSD will be open to the public and is right next to the UCSD blue line stop. Registration required and livestream available! www.eventbrite.com/e/predatory-...
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Predatory Data: Eugenics in Big Tech & Our Fight for an Independent Future
Design@Large is a UC San Diego course powered by The Design Lab that is open to the public.
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xiaowei @xrw.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
there's a cute femme owned & run cafe near my studio where i sometimes grab work lunch and it's hilarious/sad reading reviews where all the men are like "one star off for attitude, they need to all be friendlier"
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xiaowei @xrw.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
another *chefs kiss* piece from rui
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xiaowei @xrw.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
feeling lots of gratitude for my great eye doctor, who is a counter balance to my general plight of having the eyes of an 80 year old with glaucoma induced progressive vision loss. after every eye doc appt i'm wracked with anxiety and existential dread
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