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xiaowei @xrw.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

i was chatting about this with a friend yesterday and i'm so sad about this news! i'm looking forward to more of your stories in the future Zeyi!

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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

omg i love this!! yes!!

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xiaowei @xrw.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

ie, are nation-states like pants???? who said we have to wear pants?? is democracy a fun colorful pattern on top of the pants? communism a pair of grey slacks? socialism a skirt? maybe market liberalism is a weird belt of some kind

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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

oooo i didn't know they made rechargeable ones! ty

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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

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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

awww i'm glad you're getting around to all this! good luck with the root canal!

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xiaowei @xrw.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

3) the very REAL phenomenon of everyone and their mom having an opinion or imaginary of 'china' and therefore saying a lot anyways shout out to the real ones out there who still read chinese policy docs

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xiaowei @xrw.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

2) does pointing out framework of techno-orientalism in US on ai discourses (china as threat that must be overcome thru economic development) really decolonize knowledge production does it count as decolonial if you're talking about an imperial country like china

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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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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...

societyandspace.org

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 · 17/08/2025

The banchan was great. You can get free refills. Highly recommend. We ordered 100g beef which they brought out coals for, and the waiter was definitely laughing at us but also we weren't the only ones getting the free banchan game.

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Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Bisexual of the Blade (Alt-text or DIE) @shengokai.blacksky.app · 14/08/2025

This is why I like Dewey's engagement with community in "The Public and its Problems." For Dewey, community isn't just sharing an attribute: it is the ways that we come together in collective association towards a common goal. Insofar as this is the case, we can do so across difference.

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xiaowei @xrw.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

"relax, it's just a job, omg, you're still getting paid aren't you? that's the whole act, you give us homework, we do it, you get paid, we struggle, maybe i remember some stuff you taught" i'm d-e-d

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xiaowei @xrw.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

5) she said she just finished a psychology course that helped her a lot on self care stuff and also the internet helped her in school, basically rendering most of her teachers useless I was like: BUT WHAT ABOUT ME I WANNA BE A PROF to which she said...

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xiaowei @xrw.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

4) performance reviews are just tools to control you anyways, they aren't actually reflective of anything when i asked her how she got so wise at her young age, she said: THE INTERNET.

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xiaowei @xrw.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

2) if you get a bad performance review bc you aren't "working hard enough", whatever. just say you can't work any harder, that's not a lie. 3) a boss is like a bad relationship, you do fine most of the time, you don't get commended, you make one mistake and ppl give you a bad review

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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

open to suggestions of any places that accept short story submissions these days, please 💖

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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...

theideasletter.org

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...

amandaguinzburg.substack.com

Diabolus Ex Machina

This Is Not An Essay

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