Impressed a Chinese journalist by understanding the name of her favorite media outlet, a once well-responded investigative magazine, in #Chinese.
(bonus points to anyone who can guess what outlet that is)
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Impressed a Chinese journalist by understanding the name of her favorite media outlet, a once well-responded investigative magazine, in #Chinese.
(bonus points to anyone who can guess what outlet that is)
Norway reviews cybersecurity after remote-access feature found in Chinese buses
#HackerNews #Norway #cybersecurity #Chinese #buses #remote #access #technology #vulnerability
China tested a new unmanned helicopter, the T1400. The helicopter is versatile and can change the capabilities of the entire global low-altitude flight industry.
What is known about its characteristics:
- flight time - 8 hours
- maximum payload - 650 kg
- ceiling - 6,500 meters
- operates at temperatures from -40°C to 55°C
https://global.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202511/02/WS6906ff36a310f215074b87b9.html
Noteworthy that the #Americans didn't have enough sense to "change the capabilities of the entire global low-altitude flight industry" by installing a remote control on their numerous versionS during the 64 YEARS that they have been manufacturing this "new" #Chinese design.
🤔😀
They have a version with global range and 15X the maximum payload of that #China RC model.🚁
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_CH-47_Chinook
In the #China Pavilion at the Osaka #Expo, robots dance and #AI sings. But on closer look, these companies on display are the same ones sanctioned by the US for trade, human rights, and geopolitical reasons.
#Chinese tech and the U.S.-China trade war. Read more in my story with @restofworld
https://restofworld.org/2025/osaka-expo-china-tech-showcase/
In the #China Pavilion at the Osaka #Expo, robots dance and #AI sings. But on closer look, these companies on display are the same ones sanctioned by the US for trade, human rights, and geopolitical reasons.
#Chinese tech and the U.S.-China trade war. Read more in my story with @restofworld
https://restofworld.org/2025/osaka-expo-china-tech-showcase/
#TodayILearned that the Mandarin Chinese word for bangs (the hairstyle) is 刘海 (liúhaǐ), which I found super odd because it looks like someone’s name, so I did a bit of digging.
And turns out…it is someone’s name. Liuhai was the adopted name of a prominent (legendary?) character in Daoist history, who wrote a handful of Daoist texts. He’s often known as 刘海蟾 (liúhaǐchán, literally Liuhai Toad), and he is often drawn playing with a three-legged golden toad and holding a string of golden coins, in a template known as 刘海戏金蟾 (Liuhai playing with the golden toad), and get this…he’s traditionally shown with hair bangs.
And…that’s it. “Bangs” is literally known as “Liuhai’s hairstyle”.
#TodayILearned that the Mandarin Chinese word for bangs (the hairstyle) is 刘海 (liúhaǐ), which I found super odd because it looks like someone’s name, so I did a bit of digging.
And turns out…it is someone’s name. Liuhai was the adopted name of a prominent (legendary?) character in Daoist history, who wrote a handful of Daoist texts. He’s often known as 刘海蟾 (liúhaǐchán, literally Liuhai Toad), and he is often drawn playing with a three-legged golden toad and holding a string of golden coins, in a template known as 刘海戏金蟾 (Liuhai playing with the golden toad), and get this…he’s traditionally shown with hair bangs.
And…that’s it. “Bangs” is literally known as “Liuhai’s hairstyle”.
#ScribesAndMakers what makes your work unique?
Tagging my girl @ljwrites for this b/c like her, I don't think I write completely unique things, but it can come off as unique to the modern reader.
I also write #historicalfiction, but even my #sff employs the same philogical methodology that #Tolkien does. For example, my MC in my vampire novel does not fully understand the language of the world she's in.
I also base a lot of my worlds on medieval #Arab #CentralAsian and #Chinese societies.
#ScribesAndMakers what makes your work unique?
Tagging my girl @ljwrites for this b/c like her, I don't think I write completely unique things, but it can come off as unique to the modern reader.
I also write #historicalfiction, but even my #sff employs the same philogical methodology that #Tolkien does. For example, my MC in my vampire novel does not fully understand the language of the world she's in.
I also base a lot of my worlds on medieval #Arab #CentralAsian and #Chinese societies.
Perhaps of interest as #Prabowo visits #China, since he came into power, I've noticed a huge uptick in #Chinese #propaganda being published by the #Indonesian state news agency Antara. Case in point, this piece of garbage.
https://en.antaranews.com/news/377569/xinhua-commentary-unyielding-courage-drives-china-forward
There is a term in Chinese I think about. Sometimes we say ‘this person 会做人 / 不会做人’ (hui4 zuo4 ren2 / bu2 hui4 zuo4 ren2)
Broadly, it’s like ‘this person knows how to be a person / doesn’t know how to be one’.
Sometimes it is applied to some unwritten rules like ‘know how to bring a fruit gift to an elder family friend’. Or like ‘bring a tasty treat to your mother in law if she really likes food and you’re at a shop that sells her fave snacks get her some’.
But more broadly it means ‘someone who thinks of other people’.
My grandparents / parents often said they didn’t care about what my accomplishments were or weren’t, as long as I knew how to ‘be a person’, and how to be kind. I feel that’s important to me too.
There is a term in Chinese I think about. Sometimes we say ‘this person 会做人 / 不会做人’ (hui4 zuo4 ren2 / bu2 hui4 zuo4 ren2)
Broadly, it’s like ‘this person knows how to be a person / doesn’t know how to be one’.
Sometimes it is applied to some unwritten rules like ‘know how to bring a fruit gift to an elder family friend’. Or like ‘bring a tasty treat to your mother in law if she really likes food and you’re at a shop that sells her fave snacks get her some’.
But more broadly it means ‘someone who thinks of other people’.
My grandparents / parents often said they didn’t care about what my accomplishments were or weren’t, as long as I knew how to ‘be a person’, and how to be kind. I feel that’s important to me too.
the translation on Wikipedia vs my New Living Internet Translation. 🐴
#chinese #classicalchinese #translation #localization #autism #actuallyautistic #horses
the translation on Wikipedia vs my New Living Internet Translation. 🐴
#chinese #classicalchinese #translation #localization #autism #actuallyautistic #horses
StarDict 預設會將剪貼簿的內容透過 HTTP (不是 HTTPS) 傳到中國的伺服器上
#china #chinese #clipboard #http #https #malicious #privacy #security #stardict
StarDict 預設會將剪貼簿的內容透過 HTTP (不是 HTTPS) 傳到中國的伺服器上
#china #chinese #clipboard #http #https #malicious #privacy #security #stardict
I think my problem with this representation is that it's what I've always expected photo albums or similar structures would be like. A list is a little different.
Before the brand, before the coaching—there was ‘Shan.’ I tattooed it in my late 20s, long before Fitness Foundry. ‘Shan’ means mountain.⛰️
I wear the mountain because I believe in something bigger.✨
#branding #fitness #tattoo #art#Chinese #culture #coach#SmallBusiness #life#Boston #fitnesspro #fitnessgear #brands #logo#healthequity #personaltrainer
"In Mandarin Chinese, World Wide Web is commonly translated via a phono-semantic matching to wàn wéi wǎng (万维网), which satisfies www and literally means "10,000-dimensional net", a translation that reflects the design concept and proliferation of the World Wide Web."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Wide_Web
via https://mastodon.social/@mcc/114605076806447333
#internet#TheWeb#WorldWideWeb #chinese #language #linguistics
"In Mandarin Chinese, World Wide Web is commonly translated via a phono-semantic matching to wàn wéi wǎng (万维网), which satisfies www and literally means "10,000-dimensional net", a translation that reflects the design concept and proliferation of the World Wide Web."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Wide_Web
via https://mastodon.social/@mcc/114605076806447333
#internet#TheWeb#WorldWideWeb #chinese #language #linguistics
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