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It’s that time of the year again in #Hanoi, #Vietnam, when the capital is planetary top of the flops, air-wise. My outdoor #airpollution sensor records numbers beyond insanity. The temperature inversion traps particles, there is no wind. Still no clue how the future plan for the people looks like.
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#Shenzhen, #China. During our trip to Hong Kong, I also had to dip into the world’s capital of electronics (and #e-waste). I now visited the holy Eastern trinity of Huaqiangbei in CN, Akihabara in Tokyo, and Guanghua Digital Plaza in Taipei. Shenzhen’s district has the most paralyzing busyness.
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On the train, officials are offered traditional Ukrainian dishes and books about Ukraine’s history and wartime struggle. The images! The Trains That Take World Leaders to #Ukraine. #War www.nytimes.com/2024/12/0…
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So, what’s the #MMT comment of the day? The #shutdown in the #US is looming, as it always is, and #Trump suggests just removing the ceiling altogether? It’s Trump, sure, and we know what this will be used for. Yet, generally speaking: Why not? How so? How to build on this?
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How rice paddies turn into factory land. Few nations have benefited more than #Vietnam from the scramble — especially north Vietnam, historically an economic laggard compared to the more cosmopolitan south. Around Haiphong, a few hours’ drive from China, factories bloomed. The NYTimes
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We are happy that the new volume of the EASST Review is out. 43/2 baby! Hugs to everyone involved and the fellow editorial team members. This is a conference issue discussing all #sts things that happened at #EASST4S2024. Plus, the winning pieces of the creative writing competition are included.
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Nvidia’s Jensen Huang was in #Hanoi #Vietnam last week, as he was in 2023, and he put on a decent street show. It’s thus easy to overlook that last year’s formulation that Vietnam will be Nvidia’s “second home” was a slightly misleading claim. Still promising #semiconductor miracles. 🍺
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Now that the seal is broken on scraping #Bluesky posts into datasets for machine learning, people are trolling users and one-upping each other by making increasingly massive datasets of non-anonymized, full-text Bluesky posts That’s the decentral reality, as 404 reports, your stuff is out there