Xin Gu

‘We want too much to be someone. There is not one self. There are not ten self. There is no self. ME is only a position in equilibrium. (One among a thousand others, continually possible and always at the ready.) An average of “me’s”, a movement in the crowd.’ Michaux 1994,77. Masked media,21

‘I really don’t have anything more to say about ChatGPT, Galactica or whatever else they decide to put out next..we need to spend our time slowly working on the technological future we think should exist and we can’t do that if our time and imagination is hijacked by OpenAI’(Timnit Gebru)

YouTube video by IShowSpeed Most Advanced Robot🤖🇨🇳 #ishowspeed

Multiple China with @ishowspeed youtube.com/shorts/Hag52...

‘The younger me would have sat up and nodded’: Adolescence writer Jack Thorne on the insidious appeal of incel culture Researching mine and Stephen Graham’s Netflix drama, I realised the brains of under 16s are unable to cope with ideas as dangerous as those in the ‘manosphere’. The government needs to ban smartphones...

Hard to watch because of its realism, not sure the effect theory could quite explain what’s going wrong with young men in our societies… an important debate to be having. Must watch!! www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

For some Chinese chips, "no end in sight" to support the full-parameter version of DeepSeek For some Chinese chips, "no end in sight" to support the full-parameter version of DeepSeek Note: These are Jeffrey Ding’s informal and unofficial translations -- all credit for the original goes to t...

‘for some chinese chips, “no end in sight” to support the full parameter version of DeepSeek’ docs.google.com/document/u/0...

Finally got a copy of Mark Fisher’s book, always interested in this idea of #acidcommunism

China’s Creative Class goes back to the Village Since 2018, the Chinese government has started to direct investment from the cities back into the villages, and urban architectural and art…

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