This is one of the best explainers of Chinese ‘languages vs dialects’ I’ve seen
I basically understand most Min languages (especially southern ones) and Mandarin; the rest of them not at all
This is one of the best explainers of Chinese ‘languages vs dialects’ I’ve seen
I basically understand most Min languages (especially southern ones) and Mandarin; the rest of them not at all
I Was Trapped in #Chinese #Mafia #Crypto #Slavery | Hacklab @wired
🧐"It began with a message in WIRED #technology journalist Andy Greenberg's inbox, sent fr a lawless stretch of #Laos bordering #Myanmar & #Thailand. A computer engineer fr India, trapped far fr home inside an isolated compound, forced to work long hours luring western victims into fake crypto investments. Tis is how he exposed te never-before-seen inner workings of a modern #forcedlabor operation" #scammer
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zOcNaWmmn0A
I Was Trapped in #Chinese #Mafia #Crypto #Slavery | Hacklab @wired
🧐"It began with a message in WIRED #technology journalist Andy Greenberg's inbox, sent fr a lawless stretch of #Laos bordering #Myanmar & #Thailand. A computer engineer fr India, trapped far fr home inside an isolated compound, forced to work long hours luring western victims into fake crypto investments. Tis is how he exposed te never-before-seen inner workings of a modern #forcedlabor operation" #scammer
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zOcNaWmmn0A
RE: https://mastodon.social/@DrALJONES/116029489613320355
100% agreed with the sentiment of a boycott of the US.
But, let's acknowledge that the violence of the US started 250 years ago (really 534 years w/ Columbus) with genocide of the indigenous people of these continents. Then continued in slavery and violent foreign interventions as far back as the 1800s.
Violence and resource theft is a foundational element of US domestic and foreign policy. Trump is just being more open about it. Let's be totally honest about this history!
Any boycott, to be honest, needs to go far beyond Trump and acknowledge what came before and what would come after. Trump and his regime is a big red, pussy zit that's rupturing all over itself and everyone else.
Now is the time for a full reckoning with 70+ years of US hegemony. The global community, Northern and Southern nations, have an opportunity to begin a re-balancing of the global order.
A better, more fair and sane world will be one where the US is demoted. No better, no more powerful than any other.
another page from 非人哉 "Inhuman!" that amused me because I'm a Halloween stan:
"Happy Halloween! The office is holding a festive little pumpkin carving contest. Here you go."
"H-HALLOWEEN?! Sir, did you forget we're all CHINESE spirits? You expect us to know what to do with a pumpkin?! Do we look like vampires and werewolves to you?!"
"... When did you guys learn how to do that?"
another page from 非人哉 "Inhuman!" that amused me because I'm a Halloween stan:
"Happy Halloween! The office is holding a festive little pumpkin carving contest. Here you go."
"H-HALLOWEEN?! Sir, did you forget we're all CHINESE spirits? You expect us to know what to do with a pumpkin?! Do we look like vampires and werewolves to you?!"
"... When did you guys learn how to do that?"
Saw on #LinkedIn a European tech expert claiming that the #US is "by far the worst in the world in terms of privacy violations"
I honestly feel like #Asia doesn't exist to a lot of Europeans. Do they really not know how bad privacy and data laws are in many countries here? Have they not heard of the #GreatFirewall or how #Chinese users have basically zero data privacy?
Lots to critique in the US and of big tech, but that's not the way to do it.
Question for Chinese speakers.
What do you call
1) your husband's mom
2) your husband's dad
3) wife's mom
4) wife's dad
5) grandma and grandpa (moms parents)
6) grandma and grandpa (dads parents)
Bonus points for aunts and uncles too on both sides.
I'm getting blown away by the differences and I'm not sure if some people are mistaken because they're born afar like I am or if there really are that many differences.
Let me know your region and dialect too.
Question for Chinese speakers.
What do you call
1) your husband's mom
2) your husband's dad
3) wife's mom
4) wife's dad
5) grandma and grandpa (moms parents)
6) grandma and grandpa (dads parents)
Bonus points for aunts and uncles too on both sides.
I'm getting blown away by the differences and I'm not sure if some people are mistaken because they're born afar like I am or if there really are that many differences.
Let me know your region and dialect too.
saw a really good opportunity for Localizing The Joke:
"I'm September! I'm a nine-tailed fox who's been on the immortality grind for two hundred years. I'm currently trying to integrate into modern human society – y'know, job, money, all that."
"Sure, the whole 'nine-tailed fox' premise is wearing a bit thin... I mean, just look at what this ugly swirling bloom of tails looks like from behind... it's like... like an ✻AI startup logo!✻"
"Attaining immortality is really hard work, but I'm clever enough to make good progress. And I think I'm pretty well-integrated with modern culture..."
(The unlocalized joke is that she looks like a chrysanthemum.)
Source: 非人哉 which I'd translate as "Inhuman!" but is on Wikipedia as "Non-human", by Yi Wang Kong Qi
Canada slashes 100% tariffs on Chinese EVs to 6%
https://electrek.co/2026/01/16/canada-breaks-with-us-slashes-100-tariffs-chinese-evs/
#HackerNews #Canada #EVs #tariffs #Chinese #tariffs #electricvehicles #news
Does anyone who knows traditional #chinese feel like translating something for no money and no reason except my curiosity?
It's these three images. They are from a book called Literary Works of the Tsengs (Tseng Ke Tuan, 1963). I have had this for many years, for very random reasons. There are only a few large images like this in the book, I think; the rest is fairly dense Chinese text. Maybe they are title pages or maybe fancy family mottoes... my knowledge of Chinese is zero.
If you know what these are, I'd be grateful for your knowledge.
Does anyone who knows traditional #chinese feel like translating something for no money and no reason except my curiosity?
It's these three images. They are from a book called Literary Works of the Tsengs (Tseng Ke Tuan, 1963). I have had this for many years, for very random reasons. There are only a few large images like this in the book, I think; the rest is fairly dense Chinese text. Maybe they are title pages or maybe fancy family mottoes... my knowledge of Chinese is zero.
If you know what these are, I'd be grateful for your knowledge.
🇺🇸🇻🇪🇦🇿🇦🇲 I guess we now know that military operations are acceptable and nobody really cares, as long as they’re quick (the #US in #Venezuela, #Azerbaijan in #Nagorno-Karabakh...).
🇺🇦 Seems #Russia would have just had to take #Ukraine faster...
🇹🇼 Meanwhile, the #Chinese military is probably holding a #Taiwan planning party right now - bet.
#Military #Politics #War #China #USA #Unitedstates #america #news #southamerica #europe #world #government #crime #trump #putin #maduro #donaldtrump
What basic course would you suggest for self learning #Chinese?
