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18 Dec, 4 tweets, 2 min read
To combat illegal parking in their neighborhood, 66 households in Shenyang installed a massive chain lock made with 66 personal padlocks to their gate—each resident can open the gate w/ their own keys. This turns out to be a true, decentralized, free *blockchain*
For some who’s wondering why did the households install a centralized & unified system, here’s a resident’s response: “That costs money.”
Btw these padlocks have apartment numbers—the community can track if anyone left the gate open
*why didn’t

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A CCTV-affiliated Weibo account (央视网快看) posted a news video claimed, "Two-thirds of U.S. medical workers are hesitant about or hope to delay the vaccine." Oddly, the video cannot be accessed from America. Weibo videos are rarely region-locked. Image
The video below shows how the region-lock works. Note: Other videos from the same Weibo account are unrestricted. As a seasoned Weibo user, I can only recall similar region-lock used when accessing third-party video platforms from Weibo
Can't confirm if this region-lock is politically driven (like most other censorship measures). But I can't fact-check this news clip about American medical workers from America. It seems we are one step further towards alternative realities.
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Obsessed with Taiwan’s “down-to-earth” Halloween party, where you ONLY dress up as normal people in everyday situations. This is “the woman looking for a seat at food court”:
“the Starbucks employee forced to smile through an exhausting Halloween”
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A man in China was caught by police for using VPN to browse Wikipedia. While using VPN has been deemed illegal in China, this is a rare case for the gov to specifically disclose what the VPN is used for: reading wikipedia for research Image
This case is publicly listed on Zhejiang gov's website. Link here: zjzwfw.gov.cn/zjzw/punish/fr…
For a long time, using VPN to get around the Chinese firewall is a gray area. It's widely used by expats, intl students an intl companies. But recently there's a surge of cases of individuals who are punished for using VPN.
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This month I wrote about Chinese new immigrants and their vibrant food communities on WeChat, the msg app that’s soon to be banned by Trump administration. It’s largely unbeknown to non-Chinese eaters, but the app has brought a lifeline to struggling Chinese restaurants NYC 1/
It all started when @diaodiao_yang added me to a WeChat group of August Gatherings. The fusion Cantonese restaurant was reopened in August and struggling with all the NYC reopening problems. And they launched their very first WeChat group to connect with loyal customers /2
In fact, as soon as August Gatherings launched the group, ppl flocked to it. It took less than 24 hrs to hit the 500-member cap, and a month later the restaurant is running 15+ groups w/ 7000+ members across NYC, Upstate & NJ. Ppl can order food from WeChat w/o leaving WeChat /3
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24 Oct
This dog training class sold on Taobao is way more advanced than I expected: Image
This ad gives me hope for The Planet of Labrador
Already picturing how I’d sell humanity to Labrador empire in a heartbeat
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Placing “孝”(filial piety, or, a (twisted) devotion to family) as the central theme is really problematic with this version of Mulan. The screenplay is written by western people who take 孝 at face value 1/
Simply put, filial piety—even in today's context and in China—does not translate as "a devotion to family". It has a strong sentiment of blind obedience to family elders. Reforming and abolishing the archiac concept of "孝" have been a key theme in China's modernization 2/
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