@JoeXu

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

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Joined February 2009
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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 eludamos.org/index.php/eluda…
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American floor plan from China flowingdata.com/2025/04/28/a…

American floor plan from China

Many household items in the United States are almost entirely from China, making it a challenge to imagine a life where Americans buy everything domestically. For the New York Times, Pablo Robles, …

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Youtubers running out of topics.
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Another mechanical Turk? engadget.com/ai/tech-founder…

Tech founder charged with fraud for 'AI' that was secretly overseas contract workers - Engadget

The US Department of Justice has indicted Albert Sangier for defrauding investors with misleading statements about his Nate startup.

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Leading Report
@LeadingReport4 Apr 2025
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 engadget.com/social-media/pe…

Perplexity AI says it would rebuild TikTok's algorithm and add Community Notes features - Engadget

Perplexity Ai has outlined its vision for TikTok should it beat otu the many other bidders for the app.

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Apple globally censoring this iPhone communication feature deserves renewed scrutiny 9to5mac.com/2025/03/17/apple…

Apple globally censoring this iPhone communication feature deserves renewed scrutiny - 9to5Mac

Two years ago, Apple effectively censored a core iPhone communication feature. The change was reportedly initially made at the request...

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OpenAI bans Chinese accounts using ChatGPT to edit code for social media surveillance engadget.com/ai/openai-bans-…

OpenAI bans Chinese accounts using ChatGPT to edit code for social media surveillance - Engadget

A campaign with likely affiliations with China saw a company attempt to use ChatGPT to edit code for a social media surveillance tool.

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Hyperloop elevator incoming...
Autism Capital 🧩
@AutismCapital11 Feb 2025
🚨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" ino.to/ZKrkz9Y

DeepSeek is reportedly sending intricate user data to Chinese telecom despite US ban — weeks after...

DeepSeek could be sharing user data with the Chinese government without authorization despite the US ban.

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Seems like a smart move on China's part since Trump also wants to investigate Google.
Bloomberg
@business4 Feb 2025
BREAKING: China launches an antitrust investigation into Google moments after Trump's tariffs trib.al/1hanzIj
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Used iPhones That Have TikTok App Installed Sell for $14k on eBay petapixel.com/2025/01/23/use…

Used iPhones That Have TikTok App Installed Sell for $14k on eBay

Another iPhone with TikTok and Capcut is listed for $50,000.

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Game Developers Are Getting Fed Up With Their Bosses’ AI Initiatives ino.to/jByTtL5

Game Developers Are Getting Fed Up With Their Bosses’ AI Initiatives

A survey of video game developers released Tuesday indicates that a growing number of them fear artificial intelligence will have a negative impact on the industry as a whole.

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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@teo_kai_xiang20 Jan 2025
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 techcrunch.com/2025/01/14/op…

OpenAI's AI reasoning model 'thinks' in Chinese sometimes and no one really knows why | TechCrunch

OpenAI's o1 'reasoning' model sometimes switches to Chinese and other languages as it reasons through problems, and AI experts don't know exactly why.

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Microsoft has filed a gaming patent for "crafting and altering game narratives" using generative AI windowscentral.com/gaming/xb…

Microsoft has filed a gaming patent for "crafting and altering game narratives" using generative AI

A new patent filed by Microsoft purports to demonstrate how game designers and players alike can alter a narrative experience using generative AI.

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WeChat owner Tencent makes the US DoD's naughty list androidpolice.com/dod-tencen…

The US puts another major Chinese app maker on its watchlist

Tencent could face new challenges as it has now been added to the US Department of Defense's list as a Chinese military company

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