Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

Jarrod Watt @jaywatt.bsky.social · 9h

I've always wanted to do a photo feature on the truckies in Hong Kong who go to great lengths to personalise their cabins... but this is next level. Woe to the lone driver on an empty highway who has one of these roll up behind them...

Edge of LOL @edgeoflol.bsky.social · 20h

Trucks in China 🇨🇳

#trucking #china #crazy #wild

1 2 2

Jarrod Watt @jaywatt.bsky.social · 10h

Is there a dummy big enough for the big man to spit? Will Seal Team 6 be mobilised for a targeted strike on the Nobel Committee base in Norway? We are about to find out...

a person is laying on the ground with leaves around them .

ALT: a person is laying on the ground with leaves around them .

media.tenor.com

Jarrod Watt @jaywatt.bsky.social · 10h

Is it just me or does Trump think a "peace deal" signed for Gaza before Friday will get him the Nobel Peace Prize?
"...Israeli troops will be withdrawn from an “agreed-upon line” but his statement left open the question of what comes next..." www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...

1

Jarrod Watt @jaywatt.bsky.social · 10h

Checking in on the framing of Japan's first female prime minister - I see eagerness for "Japan's Iron Lady" and some focus on her once being a drummer in a metal band, but what about building a profile around the fact she owns a turbocharged Toyota Supra? www.caranddriver.com/news/a688574...

Jarrod Watt @jaywatt.bsky.social · 11h

Great to see one of the many great bars in Hong Kong get this accolade - a good news story for a sector that's copped a beating in the last five years. There are many other places that deserve a mention as well www.wineenthusiast.com/hong-kong-ni...

1

Jarrod Watt @jaywatt.bsky.social · 11h

Harry Harrison ponders the existential quandary in demanding better maintenance of Hong Kong's sub-divided apartments before the Urban Renewal Authority knocks them down for re-development: today's cartoon

1

Reposted by Jarrod Watt

Joel Chan @kjoules.org · 1d

With the Hong Kong Observatory registering a temperature of 33.1°C today, 2025 marks the first time in Hong Kong’s recorded history there were at least 4 “very hot days” in the month of October which the mercury rose above 33°C

(Chart by @kjoules.org) Hong Kong, Very Hot Days in October (in which the temperature exceeded 33C), 1884-present

2 3 17

Jarrod Watt @jaywatt.bsky.social · 1d

Oldmate just sent me a snap of his very first Two Buck Chuck. Or do we call it the KC3 dollar coin? In the spirit of Australia's season of Choose Your Own Timezone let every State and Territory give it their own nickname.

Jarrod Watt @jaywatt.bsky.social · 1d

Curious to see how the return of NBA games in China is parsed by the MAGA believers - inside the administration and those working in media. It's also quite educational for those of us present in Hong Kong in 2019 to see historical events reduced to a "democracy tweet"

www.msn.com/en-us/sports...

1 1

Jarrod Watt @jaywatt.bsky.social · 1d

A great companion piece to Doctorow's analysis of the generative AI bubble: an historical perspective on the massive boom and bust as a result of the arrival of the tech gamechanger we know as "electricity" theconversation.com/todays-ai-hy...

1 1

Jarrod Watt @jaywatt.bsky.social · 1d

How to recycle an abandoned city: fascinating feature from Kinling Lo on how one ghost town left from China's real estate collapse has been repurposed into a training ground for autonomous trucks and ride-hailing services. restofworld.org/2025/china-o...

China’s most infamous ghost town is now training ground for driverless trucks

The empty boulevards that once symbolized the mainland’s property bust now serve as testing grounds for hundreds of autonomous vehicles.

restofworld.org

1 2

Jarrod Watt @jaywatt.bsky.social · 1d

Harry Harrison lights up over new labelling rules for cigarettes in Hong Kong: today’s cartoon

1 3

Jarrod Watt @jaywatt.bsky.social · 2d

Cory Doctorow off the long run-up with quality AI analysis: “So, you're saying a third of the stock market is tied up in seven AI companies that have no way to become profitable and that this is a bubble that's going to burst and take the whole economy with it?" pluralistic.net/2025/09/27/e...

6 12

Jarrod Watt @jaywatt.bsky.social · 2d

...and the good news today is that 62 years after banning the hunting and harvesting of humpback whales for their oil, there are now more than 50,000 - bouncing back from just 150 remaining when the ban was finally put in place. www.abc.net.au/news/science...

East coast humpback numbers are now higher than pre-whaling levels

Once hunted almost to extinction, the population of humpback whales currently migrating down Australia's east coast has bounced back and is now greater than before whaling.

www.abc.net.au

2

Jarrod Watt @jaywatt.bsky.social · 2d

Harry Harrison charges up for the lantern parade in Hong Kong: today’s Mid Autumn Festival cartoon

3

Jarrod Watt @jaywatt.bsky.social · 3d

Wumao? Forget 50 cents... "Being paid by Israel to post on social media is also very lucrative. According to previously unreported recent documents... influencers are likely being paid around $7,000 per post on... Tik Tok & Instagram on behalf of Israel." responsiblestatecraft.org/israel-influ...

Israel is paying influencers $7,000 per post

Netanyahu referred this week to a 'community' pushing out preferred messaging in US media — and boy are they making a princely sum

responsiblestatecraft.org

2

Jarrod Watt @jaywatt.bsky.social · 4d

Quality summary of the current situation involving big tech, power demands of AI and the emissions/climate crisis www.crikey.com.au/2025/10/03/m...

Inside Meta's fight to change climate reality... all so it can frantically expand a risky AI program

Everyone is ignoring the science on what Meta’s generative AI investment really costs, even though there's no evidence of a single, significant societal benefit.

www.crikey.com.au

1 3 8

Jarrod Watt @jaywatt.bsky.social · 6d

Harry Harrison's cartoon on the hilarious case of the Waterbomb Hong Kong music festival being cancelled due to a forecast of gravity powered water from a passing typhoon

1 3

Jarrod Watt @jaywatt.bsky.social · 8d

Head slap or fingers crossed? Cathy Wilcox assesses the news on Gaza in today's cartoon

Jarrod Watt @jaywatt.bsky.social · 9d

A peace plan for Gaza announced by "... a president of the US who has supplied many of the bombs that have been destroying Gaza, next to a prime minister of Israel for whom the International Criminal Court has issued an arrest warrant for possible war crimes." www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...

Benjamin Netanyahu has outmanoeuvred yet another American president

For all US President Donald Trump's boasts about ending wars and being a worthy candidate for a Nobel Peace Prize, he has failed to end the war in Gaza and build a sustainable future for both Israelis...

www.abc.net.au

2

Jarrod Watt @jaywatt.bsky.social · 9d

Hong Kong hotpot heist: “Upon inspection, the staff discovered several packs of instant noodles, a large quantity of shrimp, oysters, crab, beef, and some of the shrimp were still alive.” www.marketing-interactive.com/hk-restauran...

HK restaurant trendjacks viral video of food-stealing couple

A Mong Kok eatery has trendjacked with a video highlighting greedy behaviour after a couple was caught attempting to take excess food from an all-you-can-eat hot pot spot in Tsuen Wan.

www.marketing-interactive.com

Jarrod Watt @jaywatt.bsky.social · 9d

Harry Harrison with a new style of Hong Kong hotpot following viral video of people pocketing ingredients: today’s cartoon

1 1

Jarrod Watt @jaywatt.bsky.social · 10d

Harry Harrison’s cartoon illustrates the Hong Kong housing gap between policy and reality

1 1

Jarrod Watt @jaywatt.bsky.social · 11d

The TV president vs Portlandia: “The president, however, apparently deceived by video of a handful of protesters gathered outside the Ice facility in a south-west Portland neighborhood broadcast by conservative outlets, insisted that the city has been in non-stop “anarchy” since 2020..”

Lenore Taylor @lenoret.bsky.social · 11d

There were just four protesters on the sidewalk near the Ice field office Trump claimed was “under siege”. One, wearing a chicken costume and draped in an American flag, held up a sign that read: “Portland Will Outlive Him.”

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Donald Trump says he is deploying troops to Portland, Oregon

Apparently misled by hyperbolic reporting from conservative outlets on a single small protest, president described peaceful city as ‘war ravaged’

www.theguardian.com

1 1