Yangyang Cheng
@yangyangcheng.bsky.social
Research Scholar at Yale Law School studying the history of science in China and US-China relations. Particle physicist by training. Writer at various places. Editor at Made in China Journal. Co-host of Dissident at the Doorstep.
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Potato chip flavors on sale for the Hong Kong market. A thread 🧵
Steamed Garlic Shrimp
Steamed Garlic Shrimp
December 13, 2024 at 10:05 AM
Potato chip flavors on sale for the Hong Kong market. A thread 🧵
Steamed Garlic Shrimp
Steamed Garlic Shrimp
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For many, the end of the year is an opportunity to catch up on reading or to purchase books as gifts. In 2025, a number of authors joined the Tech Policy Press podcast, providing fresh insights into how technology interacts with people, politics, and power. Check out the list:
Tech Policy Press: The Year in Books 2025 | TechPolicy.Press
In 2025, a number of authors joined the Tech Policy Press podcast, providing fresh insights into how technology interacts with people, politics, and power.
www.techpolicy.press
December 22, 2025 at 6:31 PM
For many, the end of the year is an opportunity to catch up on reading or to purchase books as gifts. In 2025, a number of authors joined the Tech Policy Press podcast, providing fresh insights into how technology interacts with people, politics, and power. Check out the list:
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Pleased to share the Spring 2026 schedule for the SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY IN ASIA online seminar series @ Harvard!
Talks are over Zoom on Tuesdays, 10:30–11:45 am EST.
REGISTRATION: seow.scholars.harvard.edu/STinAsia
#histstm #histsci #histtech #histmed #envhist #envhum #sts 🧪
Talks are over Zoom on Tuesdays, 10:30–11:45 am EST.
REGISTRATION: seow.scholars.harvard.edu/STinAsia
#histstm #histsci #histtech #histmed #envhist #envhum #sts 🧪
December 22, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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An Amusing Wooden Automaton That Types a Courteous Email on Computer Keyboard When Cranked laughingsquid.com/courtesy-ema...
An Amusing Wooden Automaton That Types a Courteous Email on Computer Keyboard When Cranked
Stoccafisso Design built an amusing wooden automaton that, when cranked, repeatedly types a very courteous message on a computer keyboard.
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December 21, 2025 at 3:24 PM
An Amusing Wooden Automaton That Types a Courteous Email on Computer Keyboard When Cranked laughingsquid.com/courtesy-ema...
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Waymo has halted service in San Francisco after numerous videos & images showed its autonomous cars snarling traffic during the blackout.
With traffic lights down, Waymos across the city stopped dead in their tracks at intersections.
missionlocal.org/2025/12/sf-w...
With traffic lights down, Waymos across the city stopped dead in their tracks at intersections.
missionlocal.org/2025/12/sf-w...
Waymo halts service during massive S.F. blackout after causing traffic jams
Waymo stopped its service across San Francisco on Saturday after numerous autonomous vehicles caused traffic jams in the city.
missionlocal.org
December 21, 2025 at 3:49 AM
Waymo has halted service in San Francisco after numerous videos & images showed its autonomous cars snarling traffic during the blackout.
With traffic lights down, Waymos across the city stopped dead in their tracks at intersections.
missionlocal.org/2025/12/sf-w...
With traffic lights down, Waymos across the city stopped dead in their tracks at intersections.
missionlocal.org/2025/12/sf-w...
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Behold: the first-ever list of news outlets that have banned generative AI in their reporting. As of today, this is literally information that you cannot find on Google.
My goal is to fill the starter pack, so please send over suggestions with supporting evidence!
go.bsky.app/8cn1XfT
My goal is to fill the starter pack, so please send over suggestions with supporting evidence!
go.bsky.app/8cn1XfT
December 17, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Behold: the first-ever list of news outlets that have banned generative AI in their reporting. As of today, this is literally information that you cannot find on Google.
My goal is to fill the starter pack, so please send over suggestions with supporting evidence!
go.bsky.app/8cn1XfT
My goal is to fill the starter pack, so please send over suggestions with supporting evidence!
go.bsky.app/8cn1XfT
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CDT Quote of the Week:
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December 20, 2025 at 2:14 AM
CDT Quote of the Week:
chinadigitaltimes.net/2025/12/vide...
chinadigitaltimes.net/2025/12/vide...
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In preparation for @thebulletin.org's anniversary issue this month I went through the archives to review our past climate coverage and found a LOT of gems. We couldn't include all of them in the timeline so going to share some of them here.
December 19, 2025 at 6:37 PM
In preparation for @thebulletin.org's anniversary issue this month I went through the archives to review our past climate coverage and found a LOT of gems. We couldn't include all of them in the timeline so going to share some of them here.
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2024's word of the year was 'enshittification' was and 2025's is 'slop'. Either next year the word is something like 'encrusted' or we figure out a way to bury the garbage or use it as fuel for something more productive
Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.
December 19, 2025 at 7:41 PM
2024's word of the year was 'enshittification' was and 2025's is 'slop'. Either next year the word is something like 'encrusted' or we figure out a way to bury the garbage or use it as fuel for something more productive
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"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future."
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
December 19, 2025 at 12:24 PM
"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future."
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
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The best China books of 2025, across nonfiction and literature, as selected by experts and the editors.
Read the full list: chinabooksreview.com/2025/12/18/b...
Read the full list: chinabooksreview.com/2025/12/18/b...
December 19, 2025 at 1:00 PM
The best China books of 2025, across nonfiction and literature, as selected by experts and the editors.
Read the full list: chinabooksreview.com/2025/12/18/b...
Read the full list: chinabooksreview.com/2025/12/18/b...
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Got a good snow pun? Enter it in Chicago’s fourth annual “name a snowplow” contest.
https://to.wttw.com/4j3Q3i9
https://to.wttw.com/4j3Q3i9
Da Plow Naming Contest Is Back. Here’s How to Enter
Got a good snow pun? Enter it in Chicago's fourth annual "name a snowplow" contest.
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December 18, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Got a good snow pun? Enter it in Chicago’s fourth annual “name a snowplow” contest.
https://to.wttw.com/4j3Q3i9
https://to.wttw.com/4j3Q3i9
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Identity issues. Migrant stories. Company profiles. Lost daughters. Daddy issues.
The 2025 edition of our annual year-end round-up of notable China books in both nonfiction and literature, nominated by experts and the editors, is here.
Read the full list: chinabooksreview.com/2025/12/18/b...
The 2025 edition of our annual year-end round-up of notable China books in both nonfiction and literature, nominated by experts and the editors, is here.
Read the full list: chinabooksreview.com/2025/12/18/b...
December 18, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Identity issues. Migrant stories. Company profiles. Lost daughters. Daddy issues.
The 2025 edition of our annual year-end round-up of notable China books in both nonfiction and literature, nominated by experts and the editors, is here.
Read the full list: chinabooksreview.com/2025/12/18/b...
The 2025 edition of our annual year-end round-up of notable China books in both nonfiction and literature, nominated by experts and the editors, is here.
Read the full list: chinabooksreview.com/2025/12/18/b...
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I'm making a starter pack of Generative AI slop-free newsrooms that you can donate and support. Obvious good eggs include @404media.co and @thexylom.com (which I founded).
Drop your suggestions below and provide evidence; this has gone too far and I'm losing my mind
Drop your suggestions below and provide evidence; this has gone too far and I'm losing my mind
1/ At bargaining yesterday, @propublica.org management said that they should have 100% discretion to replace workers with AI and would not commit to labeling future AI-generated content.
December 17, 2025 at 6:34 PM
I'm making a starter pack of Generative AI slop-free newsrooms that you can donate and support. Obvious good eggs include @404media.co and @thexylom.com (which I founded).
Drop your suggestions below and provide evidence; this has gone too far and I'm losing my mind
Drop your suggestions below and provide evidence; this has gone too far and I'm losing my mind
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Our members at @propublicaguild.org are fighting to protect their journalism and their jobs while @propublica.org management wants the right to replace our members and post slop content with no labels. Readers deserve better and so do our members! #NewsNotSlop
1/ At bargaining yesterday, @propublica.org management said that they should have 100% discretion to replace workers with AI and would not commit to labeling future AI-generated content.
December 17, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Our members at @propublicaguild.org are fighting to protect their journalism and their jobs while @propublica.org management wants the right to replace our members and post slop content with no labels. Readers deserve better and so do our members! #NewsNotSlop
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I first encountered Zheng Xiaoqiong's words in Iron Moon, a poetry collection by Chinese migrant workers. I read from her poem "Assembly Line" to close out a recent episode of 开门见山 | Gateway to Global China, a podcast I host @madeinchinajournal.com, on labor and (de)industrialization in East Asia🎙️:
Episode 5 | Labour and (De)Industrialisation in East Asia | Made in China Journal
Over the past few years, industrial policy and manufacturing capacity, especially in the high-tech sector, have been at the centre of great power rivalry between the United States and China. The White...
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December 15, 2025 at 4:32 PM
I first encountered Zheng Xiaoqiong's words in Iron Moon, a poetry collection by Chinese migrant workers. I read from her poem "Assembly Line" to close out a recent episode of 开门见山 | Gateway to Global China, a podcast I host @madeinchinajournal.com, on labor and (de)industrialization in East Asia🎙️:
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"'I had to leave!' A whole generation of rural youngsters felt this yearning."
So grateful for this essay by Zheng Xiaoqiong in @equatormag.bsky.social (tr. Eleanor Goodman) on the aspirations, disillusionment, and perseverance of fellow migrant workers whose labor powered China's industrial rise👇
So grateful for this essay by Zheng Xiaoqiong in @equatormag.bsky.social (tr. Eleanor Goodman) on the aspirations, disillusionment, and perseverance of fellow migrant workers whose labor powered China's industrial rise👇
The Makers of Modern China • EQUATOR
For many years, Zheng Xiaoqiong has collected the stories of the workers whose migration to Guangdong powered China’s manufacturing revolution
www.equator.org
December 15, 2025 at 4:26 PM
"'I had to leave!' A whole generation of rural youngsters felt this yearning."
So grateful for this essay by Zheng Xiaoqiong in @equatormag.bsky.social (tr. Eleanor Goodman) on the aspirations, disillusionment, and perseverance of fellow migrant workers whose labor powered China's industrial rise👇
So grateful for this essay by Zheng Xiaoqiong in @equatormag.bsky.social (tr. Eleanor Goodman) on the aspirations, disillusionment, and perseverance of fellow migrant workers whose labor powered China's industrial rise👇
"'I had to leave!' A whole generation of rural youngsters felt this yearning."
So grateful for this essay by Zheng Xiaoqiong in @equatormag.bsky.social (tr. Eleanor Goodman) on the aspirations, disillusionment, and perseverance of fellow migrant workers whose labor powered China's industrial rise👇
So grateful for this essay by Zheng Xiaoqiong in @equatormag.bsky.social (tr. Eleanor Goodman) on the aspirations, disillusionment, and perseverance of fellow migrant workers whose labor powered China's industrial rise👇
The Makers of Modern China • EQUATOR
For many years, Zheng Xiaoqiong has collected the stories of the workers whose migration to Guangdong powered China’s manufacturing revolution
www.equator.org
December 15, 2025 at 4:26 PM
"'I had to leave!' A whole generation of rural youngsters felt this yearning."
So grateful for this essay by Zheng Xiaoqiong in @equatormag.bsky.social (tr. Eleanor Goodman) on the aspirations, disillusionment, and perseverance of fellow migrant workers whose labor powered China's industrial rise👇
So grateful for this essay by Zheng Xiaoqiong in @equatormag.bsky.social (tr. Eleanor Goodman) on the aspirations, disillusionment, and perseverance of fellow migrant workers whose labor powered China's industrial rise👇
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One HK man Simon told me he’s here to support Lai and his wife, but he’s not optimistic about the verdict. He and a friend are carrying bright red apples, to represent the Apple Daily newspaper which Lai founded, and which was forced to close by authorities.
December 15, 2025 at 12:52 AM
One HK man Simon told me he’s here to support Lai and his wife, but he’s not optimistic about the verdict. He and a friend are carrying bright red apples, to represent the Apple Daily newspaper which Lai founded, and which was forced to close by authorities.
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Hong Kong media mogul Jimmy Lai has been found guilty of collusion and sedition in his national security trial. In full: buff.ly/x1KrXiO
Hong Kong's Jimmy Lai found guilty under national security law
Hong Kong media mogul Jimmy Lai has been found guilty of collusion and sedition in his national security trial.
buff.ly
December 15, 2025 at 2:42 AM
Hong Kong media mogul Jimmy Lai has been found guilty of collusion and sedition in his national security trial. In full: buff.ly/x1KrXiO
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Physics Today magazine is the leading publication in the physical sciences community and they are looking for a science editor with a background in physics. #physicsjobs #sciencejournalism workforcenow.adp.com/mascsr/defau...
Recruitment
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December 14, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Physics Today magazine is the leading publication in the physical sciences community and they are looking for a science editor with a background in physics. #physicsjobs #sciencejournalism workforcenow.adp.com/mascsr/defau...
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In late 2020 a Chinese man called Guan Heng travelled to Xinjiang with our BuzzFeed map of detention facilities to provide ground truth for our work - he provided the first corroborating evidence for many sites.
He escaped to the US - then ICE detained him.
www.wsj.com/world/china/...
He escaped to the US - then ICE detained him.
www.wsj.com/world/china/...
ICE Holding Chinese Man Who Documented Uyghur Camps
Heng Guan is awaiting an immigration hearing on Monday that could lead to his removal from the U.S. and ultimately land him back in China, according to his lawyer and a New York-based activist group.
www.wsj.com
December 13, 2025 at 3:17 PM
In late 2020 a Chinese man called Guan Heng travelled to Xinjiang with our BuzzFeed map of detention facilities to provide ground truth for our work - he provided the first corroborating evidence for many sites.
He escaped to the US - then ICE detained him.
www.wsj.com/world/china/...
He escaped to the US - then ICE detained him.
www.wsj.com/world/china/...
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🚨 𝐂𝐅𝐏 𝐀𝐥𝐞𝐫𝐭: 𝐋𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐫 & 𝐀𝐈 𝐒𝐲𝐦𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐢𝐮𝐦 𝐚𝐭 𝐘𝐚𝐥𝐞
Theme: Workers Building, Using, and Resisting AI
📅 Date: April 29, 2026
📍 Loc: Yale University (In-person)
💰 Funding: Scholarships available for grad students & organizers!
𝐃𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞: Jan 18, 2026 Submit here: indl-na.sciencesconf.org
Theme: Workers Building, Using, and Resisting AI
📅 Date: April 29, 2026
📍 Loc: Yale University (In-person)
💰 Funding: Scholarships available for grad students & organizers!
𝐃𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞: Jan 18, 2026 Submit here: indl-na.sciencesconf.org
INDL North America: Symposium on Labor and Artificial Intelligence - Sciencesconf.org
Workers Building, Using, and Resisting AI
indl-na.sciencesconf.org
December 12, 2025 at 10:20 PM
🚨 𝐂𝐅𝐏 𝐀𝐥𝐞𝐫𝐭: 𝐋𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐫 & 𝐀𝐈 𝐒𝐲𝐦𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐢𝐮𝐦 𝐚𝐭 𝐘𝐚𝐥𝐞
Theme: Workers Building, Using, and Resisting AI
📅 Date: April 29, 2026
📍 Loc: Yale University (In-person)
💰 Funding: Scholarships available for grad students & organizers!
𝐃𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞: Jan 18, 2026 Submit here: indl-na.sciencesconf.org
Theme: Workers Building, Using, and Resisting AI
📅 Date: April 29, 2026
📍 Loc: Yale University (In-person)
💰 Funding: Scholarships available for grad students & organizers!
𝐃𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞: Jan 18, 2026 Submit here: indl-na.sciencesconf.org
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When the AI boom began, copywriters were singled out as one of the jobs most vulnerable to AI. Now, three years later, I wanted to hear from workers on the frontlines of the industry, to hear what had actually taken place on the ground.
For many, it was even worse than they'd feared.
For many, it was even worse than they'd feared.
"I was forced to use AI until the day I was laid off." Copywriters reveal how AI has decimated their industry
Copywriters were one of the first to have their jobs targeted by AI firms. These are their stories, three years into the AI era.
www.bloodinthemachine.com
December 12, 2025 at 6:47 PM
When the AI boom began, copywriters were singled out as one of the jobs most vulnerable to AI. Now, three years later, I wanted to hear from workers on the frontlines of the industry, to hear what had actually taken place on the ground.
For many, it was even worse than they'd feared.
For many, it was even worse than they'd feared.