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  • Naked power politics + more things

    Naked power politics is a challenge to the post cold war consensus. Russia’s invasion in Ukraine, like Ethiopia’s invasion of Tigray are two examples of naked power politics in action. Russia’s naked power politics approach isn’t new and was something that the Financial Times and others had been talking about for at least a decade…

  • Assembly process video + more stuff

    Porsche 911 GT3 assembly process video I am a sucker for a manufacturing assembly process video. Over time I have shared videos showcasing Nokia’s largely automated smartphone manufacturing lines that they had before the Microsoft disaster and old time metalworking archive footage as assembly process videos. So I had to share this timelapse assembly process…

  • Audemars Piguet + more news

    Russia Seized Millions of Dollars of Swiss Luxury Watches in Moscow – Russian customs service agents took millions of dollars of Audemars Piguet watches. Audemars Piguet had closed its boutique in Moscow. The Russians allege that Audemars Piguet was in breach of customs regulations. The reality is that its retaliation for Switzerland joining other countries in…

  • LIHKG forum + more news

    LIHKG forum LIHKG forum became famous beyond Hong Kong when it was at the centre of the leaderless protest movement during the 2019 Hong Kong protests. Hong Kong’s local internet has a history of Reddit like forums since the late 1990s. HKGolden Prior to 2016, there was the HKGolden Forum named after the Golden Computer…

  • 3G graduation + more stuff

    3G graduation film 3G graduation sees DoCoMo celebrating 3G wireless services and how they fitted into consumers lives. While DoCoMo has its service running for another couple of years, rival Au has shut down its 3G network this year. The ‘Graduation’ in 3G graduation is used in a similar way to how US technology companies…

  • Animoca Brands + more news

    Animoca Brands Animoca Brands: How a big bet on blockchain and NFTs minted Hong Kong’s latest unicorn | South China Morning Post and more here The Sandbox developer Animoca Brands sees private valuation surge to US$5 billion amid metaverse, NFT frenzy | South China Morning Post – Animoca Brands has come up fast with The Sandbox. NFTs…

  • Ghost ships + more news

    Ghost ships tankering black market oil to and from sanctioned countries around the world Tanker companies warn of rise in armada of ghost ships | Financial Times – older ships are being bought and then used for sanctions running as these ghost ships. Ghost ships have safety implications due to their age. Given that these…

  • Alexa whistleblower + more news

    Alexa whistleblower Alexa whistleblower demands Amazon apology after being jailed and tortured | Amazon | The Guardian – A whistleblower who exposed illegal working conditions in a factory making Amazon’s Alexa devices says he was tortured before being jailed by Chinese authorities. Tang Mingfang, 43, was jailed after he revealed how the Foxconn factory in…

  • Handspring + more things

    Springboard a documentary on Handspring Handspring was a key part of my first agency job. It was the dot com era, Jeff Hawkins, Donna Dubinsky, and Ed Colligan had founded Palm Inc. and left after it was sold to 3Com. They then went on to make modular PDAs with the Handspring Visor – which tapped…