The Last Frontier: Fukuyama, Silicon Valley, and techno-escapism
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Tianyu Fang
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Writer and researcher. Founding intern . Currently . Previously Beijing and Merrimack Valley.
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I'm honoured to be publishing some of CIP's first public work with two dear friends, and , alongside an amazing advisory and community council. Theory is only beginning of the grand strategy needed, however, to overcome what the below trilemma.
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Today, we are publishing the Collective Intelligence Project whitepaper, our R&D agenda for transformative tech governance.
It is our contribution to what we see as one of the world’s biggest problems. We couldn’t be more excited to share it with you. 1/
cip.org/whitepaper
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is anyone else going to the PALO ALTO tour in palo alto?
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Who's coming to the NorCal PALO ALTO tour? Let me know so that I am properly prepared to say sup
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The Second Cybernetic Moment
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Humans are an API to ChatGPT.
ChatGPT is an API to Python.
Python is an API to C.
C is an API to assembly.
Assembly is an API to binary.
Binary is an API to physics.
Physics is an API to the machine that runs the universe.
It's computation all the way down.
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Don Quixote finally beats the windmill
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Fighters jets circling the balloon ready to shoot it down over off of Myrtle Beach. #ChineseSpyBalloon
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Long live , one of the best publications covering China’s internet. This from is excellently put chaoyang.substack.com/p/goodbye
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Updated schedule and location for the event. For online participants, you can still register by scanning the QR code in the poster. A Zoom link will be sent to you later.
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Mark your date: on February 6 (10:00-18:00 PT), we will hold a hybrid workshop dedicated to Professor Jiwei Ci's political philosophy at UC Berkeley. Scan the QR Code in the poster to register for Zoom participation.
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Stories we were working on but couldn't get over the finish line (1/3):
- A deep-dive into the cultural influence of Douban as a platform, looking at RUN philosophy and groups like "Women in Tech"
- A look at the wild, competitive world of cooking influencers on the Chinese Web
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This is our goodbye post—our last “group chat.”
We never expected so many of you to be reading our work, and we are grateful that you are part of this incredible journey.
chaoyang.substack.com/p/goodbye
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maybe the real chaoyang trap was the friends we made along the way
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The very first episode of Chaoyang Trap, where it all began:
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"What happens in Chaoyang doesn’t stay in Chaoyang; if you look closely enough, there’s always a Chaoyang Trap near you."
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"along with them, the chasm on the marginal and the possibilities for subversiveness. The wanghong doesn’t have to be Chinese; neijuan is everywhere; to quit quietly is to lie flat."
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"Instead of writing about contemporary China as a static object to be watched from afar, we wanted our readers to examine the shared structures of oppression, alienation, and techno-solutionism in the Global South and North—"
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As I write in the finale:
Everyday realities in China "should be neither observed in an ahistorical vacuum, nor divorced from the political economy and ideologies that are inherently transnational."
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A guiding principle of our work was to reject China exceptionalism(s). It is neither exceptionally good nor exceptionally bad: Our observations in contemporary China manifest global systems that are, in nature, beyond the boundaries of the nation-state.
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It's bittersweet to bid farewell to . I loved every moment I was part of this project. I got to know some of my (now) favorite people and grew in ways I couldn’t have imagined.
Thank you all for helping us make our idea a tangible reality.
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Two years ago, when we started this project in February 2021, we had an expiration date in mind. After two seasons, or 31 dispatches, it's finally time to say goodbye.
chaoyang.substack.com/p/goodbye
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My short piece in on DiDi and Xuexi Qiangguo got featured in the Tech newsletter, thanks to
semafor.com/newsletter/02/
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NEW: China's tech "crackdown" was actually continuous with several distinct regulatory projects, writes in our DigiChina Forum.
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business idea: arranging group tours of cerebral valley for foreign entrepreneurs
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But now, after GPT-3 (COVID prevented visits until now, but GPT-3 was the marker), my respect for SV has returned. No one in China could have done this. SV is again the birthplace of true innovation. I’m so excited about this new era. It feels like mobile internet in 2010.”
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The 2022 UC Strike mobilized large numbers of Chinese international student workers, including many first-time organizers. Read and 's interview with rank-and-file Chinese graduate workers about their experiences during the strike:
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Chapter by , , on the role of the Epoch Times and the Guo Wengui universe in COVID disinfo:
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NEW: DigiChina's newsletter is back in 2023!
Check out our latest edition, out moments ago… digichina.substack.com/p/is-chinas-te
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NEW: DigiChina's newsletter is back in 2023!
Check out our latest edition, out moments ago… digichina.substack.com/p/is-chinas-te
By @tianyuf and @gwbstr.
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NEW: DigiChina's newsletter is back in 2023!
Check out our latest edition, out moments ago… digichina.substack.com/p/is-chinas-te
By @tianyuf and @gwbstr.
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also I've long suspected that Xuexi Qiangguo is just Alibaba's DingTalk—my XQ profile gets synced to DingTalk when I first signed up for the latter—but now there's a DingTalk FAQ article that proves it: web.archive.org/web/2023012400
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My quick riff
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LATEST: Is China's government standing up a state-backed ride-hailing service to compete with DiDi?
@tianyuf writes that the "Little Red App" turns out to be reportedly considering fielding an in-app ride-hailing aggregator. DiDi might even be included.
digichina.stanford.edu/work/is-a-stat
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Current wait times at embassies for a visitor visa to the US:
872 days — Bogota
814 days — Lima
643 days — Mexico City
623 days — Mumbai
596 days — Kolkata
595 days — Hyderabad
577 days — Guadalajara
575 days — New Delhi
560 days — Chennai
538 days — Hermosillo
850 days — Abuja
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Interesting that Twitter's typeface for handles seems to have added stokes to the uppercase i. Correct me if I'm wrong, but this wasn't the case before?
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Stanford friends: Darren Byler is giving a lecture on campus on Wednesday. If you're in the area and are interested in joining us, please email tianyu [at] tianyufang [dot] net for details.
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Amazing find
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Mishima, who signed on to a 1967 statement against the policies of the Cultural Revolution, had his work translated and published under the same regime. These translations, published in 1971, credit him as "Japanese reactionary writer Mishima Yukio" and contain a disclaimer...
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after 3 months in the hospital awaiting a heart transplant, my good friend garry just learned a heart has become available. please consider reading/sharing his story and contributing to his recovery fund.
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what if blue man group is actually na’vi shen yun
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it's the organizer of dreamforce
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what the fuck is salesforce
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every time i see an odd response to a calendar invite i feel an irresistible urge to figure out how caldav & its bastardized variants (google calendar) work
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In a region choked with traffic, froze the number of car commuters coming to campus in 2000. The share of commuters driving alone fell from 69% to under 50% in less than ten years.
In 2021 just 39% drove to campus.
How did they do it?
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the great understander of straussian esotericism
Appearing momentarily to say it is a blast 🌟 to be on 's podcast. Thanks to team, who put in so much work behind the scenes.
Happy Rabbit 🐰Year, everyone 🍊🍊
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Never trust Google
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Replying to @wyattfrom5to7
Woah, my bad. SF land area is 46.9 sqmi; SJ land area is 178.24 sqmi.
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