technically, a sociologist | 哲♂学 | synthetic ethnography | algorithmic folklore | RTs ≠ RTs, Favs ≈ affect | unofficial account | very good at bad sweaters
Nov 28, 2022 • 6 tweets • 1 min read
I studied the Chinese Internet for a decade, including several occasions of protest and civil unrest. It is time that I lay down how this is going to go. Buckle up: 🧵1/47
I don't fucking know. Nobody does. That's the whole point. Approaching the question from a predictive standpoint is epistemologically sus and in itself a precise political position that happens to be oriented in very peculiar ways
Jan 12, 2019 • 15 tweets • 3 min read
I've spent the past month writing a thing on AI in China, some takeaways:
just like anywhere else, AI 人工智能 means everything & nothing in China, spanning core computational technologies and theoretical research as well as mundane applications of algorithms and interface gimmicks - but at least the Chinese term for it includes 人 (man) and 工 (labor)
