joexu.bsky.social

Assistant Professor at Old Dominion University | Former journalist/documentarian | Researching China's mobile tech/game industry. Alum @UWCommarts @UmichDigital

[joexu.bsky.social @JoeXu]

New publication for the New Year 🎊 my open access article: "(Re)producing orientalism
Industry logic of Chinese mobile game reskins in the global app empire" is published in Eludamos: Journal for Computer Game Culture https://t.co/NhUWCkJ7in

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@clashreport why not send them in meat assaults?

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American floor plan from China https://t.co/EW3ZSTHzUU

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Youtubers running out of topics.

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Another mechanical Turk? https://t.co/kELheFxzt3

[Leading Report @LeadingReport]

BREAKING: President Trump says “every country” has called the White House in response to tariffs.

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If UW-Madison gets rid of DEI will they just go back to photoshopping black folks on their magazines.

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Seeing all the Ghibli AI slop

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Perplexity AI says it would rebuild TikTok's algorithm and add Community Notes features https://t.co/q0mCYAcc4k

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Apple globally censoring this iPhone communication feature deserves renewed scrutiny https://t.co/8BiDCIc3dF

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OpenAI bans Chinese accounts using ChatGPT to edit code for social media surveillance https://t.co/hFsQPcKIjZ

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Hyperloop elevator incoming...

[Autism Capital 🧩 @AutismCapital]

🚨BREAKING: Elon Musk says that there is a literal limestone mine where they store all the US Government's retirement paperwork built in 1950 that they need to go up and down every time they want to retire someone from Federal Government. The speed in which they can retire people is limited by the speed of the elevator shaft. Yes, actually.

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DeepSeek is reportedly sending intricate user data to Chinese telecom despite US ban — weeks after suffering a "large-scale cyberattack" https://t.co/7fXtbcMI3M

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Seems like a smart move on China's part since Trump also wants to investigate Google.

[Bloomberg @business]

BREAKING: China launches an antitrust investigation into Google moments after Trump's tariffs https://t.co/GjkKvbSJZs

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Used iPhones That Have TikTok App Installed Sell for $14k on eBay https://t.co/gk8AeTyzXC

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Game Developers Are Getting Fed Up With Their Bosses’ AI Initiatives https://t.co/74rLU5YOlk

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I honestly don't understand the trend in academia of holding expensive "summer schools" when it is just a glorified workshop.

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Hit up Ian Miles Cheong

[Kai is a journalist @teo_kai_xiang]

Are you an incel in Singapore (or do you know of someone who is)?

I'm a journalist with The Straits Times working on a story about this online subculture, and I'd love to speak to you.

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OpenAI’s AI reasoning model ‘thinks’ in Chinese sometimes and no one really knows why https://t.co/BVIjWZtxg2

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Microsoft has filed a gaming patent for "crafting and altering game narratives" using generative AI https://t.co/9RKqDyssQM