Joe Yizhou Xu

If AI is all the rage why is my Google assistant still dumb as rocks?

Lol

NYT China coverage reduced to this.

Criminal behavior now called rewiring lol

Where was this tweet when I taught my Global Media Industries class last semester? 😂

Very confusing timeline

Got summoned for jury duty in Maryland, a state I have not lived in for 20 years lol

Homeland Security revokes legal status for migrants who entered U.S. using CBP One app The Department of Homeland Security is telling migrants who entered the country using an online app to leave the United States immediately.

This app was always a trap and surveillance tool www.pbs.org/newshour/nat...

I clearly underestimated the horror that is about to befall academia 4 months ago.

I realized the best way to judge a country's crusine is to see how well they can cook eggplant.

DC does not play

What could go wrong?

Why is Trump obsessed with Andrew Jackson, William McKinley and James Monroe, where did he learn US history?

Incredible diversity of "experts" on Wired as usual.

I literally just had a lecture about the importance of the Marshall Plan to postwar recovery and here is Trump dismantling USAID

Wait so right wingers finally discovered the term hegemonic, tries to appropriate it, only to realize the US will no longer be a hegemon in the future lol

Must be a Virginia thing, the moment I opened Facebook marketplace it is all Confederate memorabilia.

Pray I can get into this conference in Japan so that I can well...go to Japan 🙏

New publication for the New Year 🎊 my open access article: "(Re)producing orientalism
Industry logic of Chinese mobile game reskins in the global app empire" is now published in Eludamos: Journal for Computer Game Culture eludamos.org/index.php/el...

The fact these two films are available for free on Youtube is kind of funny, aptly timed too.

Just found out the Asian population make up of 15.56% of the population in Bentonville, Arkansas. It is the HQ of Walmart so that makes sense lol.

Yes, the perks of living in zone 8b is all the amazing greenery I can plant compared to the horrid Midwest.

The osmanthus fragrans 桂花 tree I planted earlier this year finally bloomed.

Excited my talk "Passion, Crunch, and the Perpetuation of Productivity in the Chinese Mobile Game Industry" is accepted at SCMS 2025, see y'all next year.

House committee hearings sound like a plot to a really bad sci-fi movie.

Pretty stunning how most universities have said NOTHING about supporting international and undocumented students in what's about to be the largest deportation in US history.

Fitting the movie Idiocracy is free on YouTube right now

Bluesky going down is very much early Twitter. Growing pains lol

For new followers. I am an Assistant Professor at Old Dominion University. My research is mainly on the mobile game and tech industry in China where I worked as a localizer. I was also a former broadcast journalist in China. Love to connect with more people here!

Autumn in Virginia