Bei
@beiwangnl.bsky.social
Cultural broker, Researcher, Lecturer and Advisor on Digital Culture, Digital Media and Digital China
道可道，非常道；名可名，非常名。
Expressible way is not the eternal way, Nameable name isn't the eternal Name
#ai #technodiversity
Expressible way is not the eternal way, Nameable name isn't the eternal Name
#ai #technodiversity
June 5, 2025 at 3:07 PM
道可道，非常道；名可名，非常名。
Expressible way is not the eternal way, Nameable name isn't the eternal Name
#ai #technodiversity
Expressible way is not the eternal way, Nameable name isn't the eternal Name
#ai #technodiversity
Reading Chinese translated version of Decisive Moments in History by Stefan Zweig
June 5, 2025 at 5:51 AM
Reading Chinese translated version of Decisive Moments in History by Stefan Zweig
Ik vind deze campagne erg belangrijk - doe je ook mee? actie.degoedezaak.org/petitions/mo...
Teken voor een motie van wantrouwen tegen minister Faber
De ondertekenaars van deze petitie laten zien dat het Nederlandse volk klaar is met een minister die de hand boven het hoofd gehouden wordt om de coalitie bij elkaar te houden. Dit terwijl de minister...
actie.degoedezaak.org
May 12, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Ik vind deze campagne erg belangrijk - doe je ook mee? actie.degoedezaak.org/petitions/mo...
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Newsletter: Inside the Trump family’s sprawling crypto empire — from memecoins to mining — and how Trump is using presidential power to dismantle the regulators who could stop it.
www.citationneeded.news/trump-crypto...
www.citationneeded.news/trump-crypto...
Trump’s newest grift: Building a cryptocurrency empire while destroying its regulators
Inside the Trump family’s sprawling crypto empire — from memecoins to mining — and how Trump is using presidential power to dismantle the regulators who could stop it
www.citationneeded.news
April 17, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Newsletter: Inside the Trump family’s sprawling crypto empire — from memecoins to mining — and how Trump is using presidential power to dismantle the regulators who could stop it.
www.citationneeded.news/trump-crypto...
www.citationneeded.news/trump-crypto...
《诗中的宇宙》诞生于 2017 年，为了纪念生命的奇迹和现实的辉煌，同时也是为了抗议 "另类事实 "横行和忽视环境保护的时代对科学和自然--也就是对生命和现实--的攻击。这既是一种反抗，也是一种坚持。 通过我们（人类）对音乐、数学、艺术和希望的能力，执着地追求自然在人类本性中的完美表达。
April 6, 2025 at 7:38 AM
《诗中的宇宙》诞生于 2017 年，为了纪念生命的奇迹和现实的辉煌，同时也是为了抗议 "另类事实 "横行和忽视环境保护的时代对科学和自然--也就是对生命和现实--的攻击。这既是一种反抗，也是一种坚持。 通过我们（人类）对音乐、数学、艺术和希望的能力，执着地追求自然在人类本性中的完美表达。
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A system that rewards companies for enabling authoritarianism will inevitably and consistently produce authoritarianism.
That’s not a political opinion — it’s a design specification.
That’s not a political opinion — it’s a design specification.
Why Do Corporations Love Authoritarianism?
The least fun fact you're likely to read today:
IBM helped the Nazis.
Through its German subsidiary Dehomag, "Big Blue" custom-engineered Hollerith punch card machines specifically designed to meet the Third Reich's requirements for tracking, sorting, and processing human beings.
These were specialized systems developed to enhance the efficiency of
www.joanwestenberg.com
March 21, 2025 at 11:01 AM
A system that rewards companies for enabling authoritarianism will inevitably and consistently produce authoritarianism.
That’s not a political opinion — it’s a design specification.
That’s not a political opinion — it’s a design specification.
just spent a week in #China, when #DeepSeek was talked about.
#digitalchina is best described in one word: 祛魅 （disenchantment ), consciously or unconsciously. 😁
Photos credit to #Beeple solo exhibition in Deji Art Museum in #nanjing
#digitalart #digitalculture #artandtechnology #祛魅
#digitalchina is best described in one word: 祛魅 （disenchantment ), consciously or unconsciously. 😁
Photos credit to #Beeple solo exhibition in Deji Art Museum in #nanjing
#digitalart #digitalculture #artandtechnology #祛魅
February 4, 2025 at 6:58 PM
just spent a week in #China, when #DeepSeek was talked about.
#digitalchina is best described in one word: 祛魅 （disenchantment ), consciously or unconsciously. 😁
Photos credit to #Beeple solo exhibition in Deji Art Museum in #nanjing
#digitalart #digitalculture #artandtechnology #祛魅
#digitalchina is best described in one word: 祛魅 （disenchantment ), consciously or unconsciously. 😁
Photos credit to #Beeple solo exhibition in Deji Art Museum in #nanjing
#digitalart #digitalculture #artandtechnology #祛魅
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This is how modern oligarchs work. They don't burn books—they bury them in content. They don't silence the news—they reframe it as entertainment. They don't kill publishing—they make it appealing to a four-quadrant audience.
Democracy Dies in a Rebrand
Democracy doesn’t die in darkness—it dies in a rebrand, as watchdogs are neutered into lapdogs
www.theindex.media
January 17, 2025 at 10:46 AM
This is how modern oligarchs work. They don't burn books—they bury them in content. They don't silence the news—they reframe it as entertainment. They don't kill publishing—they make it appealing to a four-quadrant audience.
#tiktokrefugee Exodus is like the sequel of #xrefugee
We really need “decentralized” internet (whether it is called Web3 or DAO or other technical names…)
www.noemamag.com/the-great-de...
We really need “decentralized” internet (whether it is called Web3 or DAO or other technical names…)
www.noemamag.com/the-great-de...
The Great Social Media Disapora | NOEMA
What happens when sprawling online communities fracture into politically homogenous, self-governing communities?
www.noemamag.com
January 16, 2025 at 1:29 PM
#tiktokrefugee Exodus is like the sequel of #xrefugee
We really need “decentralized” internet (whether it is called Web3 or DAO or other technical names…)
www.noemamag.com/the-great-de...
We really need “decentralized” internet (whether it is called Web3 or DAO or other technical names…)
www.noemamag.com/the-great-de...
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December 24, 2024 at 4:06 PM
“There are things that can be measured. There are things that are worth measuring. But what can be measured is not always what is worth measuring; what gets measured may have no relationship to what we really want to know.” - Jerry Muller
December 15, 2024 at 3:19 PM
“There are things that can be measured. There are things that are worth measuring. But what can be measured is not always what is worth measuring; what gets measured may have no relationship to what we really want to know.” - Jerry Muller
Work by Axel van der Kraan, displayed at the Kröller-Müller Museum.
November 21, 2024 at 7:12 AM
Work by Axel van der Kraan, displayed at the Kröller-Müller Museum.
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November 18, 2024 at 6:14 PM
I've created a Starter Pack of Greater China media people.
Please share!
DM me if you'd like to be added.
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Please share!
DM me if you'd like to be added.
go.bsky.app/JB4exUy