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Cindy Wan

@cindywan.bsky.social

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Angry girl heartbreakingly watching history unfold in my little hometown of Hong Kong.

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Cindy Wan @cindywan.bsky.social · Feb 6

“Politically, the weakness of the argument has always been that those who choose the lesser evil forget very quickly that they chose evil.”

Hannah Arendt (1906-1975)
historian, philosopher, political theorist.

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Cindy Wan @cindywan.bsky.social · 1h

I actually know HongKongers who emigrated to the UK with very little knowledge of English.
Made little sense to me…

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Min Chao @wordsfromtaiwan.bsky.social · 1h

"The Seafarer (討海人)" is a two-part mini-series on the social and environmental impact of modernization upon the fishermen of Liuqiu Island, a small coral isle administered by Pingtung County. To them, #Taiwan proper is "the mainland."

Part 1 deals with smuggling and parenthood: youtu.be/sxT4hdstbR8

客家電視電影院《討海人》(上)：靠海吃飯求生存

YouTube video by 客家電視 HakkaTV

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Cindy Wan @cindywan.bsky.social · 1h

Strands #591
“Going up?”
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Cindy Wan @cindywan.bsky.social · 1h

Framed - One Frame Challenge #317
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Framed - One Frame Challenge

Guess the movie from a single frame. Every guess reveals more of the frame. Come back each day to see if you can guess the movie!

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Cindy Wan @cindywan.bsky.social · 1h

Framed #1314
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Framed - The daily movie guessing game

Guess the movie from 6 frames. Come back each day to see if you can guess the daily movie, or visit the archive to answer the days that you missed!

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Cindy Wan @cindywan.bsky.social · 1h

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ShawnJPB 📼 @jetpackbraggin.bsky.social · 19h

Sad to hear Drew Struzan passed away. His posters were often better than the movies they were for, but The Thing is head and shoulders my favorite of his work.

www.slashfilm.com/1996528/drew...

Movie poster for The Thing painted by Drew Struzan

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Jarrod Watt @jaywatt.bsky.social · 9h

“New articles generated by AI briefly outnumbered those written by humans online, but the two are now roughly equal…” - I read this while listening to Maron’s last podcast, confirming my sense of a turning/inflection point. Good time to hug a librarian. www.axios.com/2025/10/14/a...

Exclusive: The web is still mostly written by humans, study finds

New data shows AI-written content is plateauing — and doesn't perform well in search.

www.axios.com

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Cindy Wan @cindywan.bsky.social · 6h

Gotta wonder which Western countries they have chosen to retire to…

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Politico @politico.com · 18h

EXCLUSIVE: Thousands of leaked messages show leaders of Young Republican groups joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape in a private Telegram chat.

Inside rising GOP leaders’ racist chats — obtained by POLITICO and spanning more than 7 months👇

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 15h

Unless and until some kind of compelling legal and moral argument is presented as to why this is a legitimate use of deadly force, this is just…mass murder.

Amarnath Amarasingam @amaramarasingam.bsky.social · 16h

The military has now killed 27 people as if they were enemy soldiers in a war zone and not criminal suspects. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

U.S. Military Kills Another 6 People in 5th Caribbean Strike, Trump Says

www.nytimes.com

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Cindy Wan @cindywan.bsky.social · 6h

71 days until Christmas (for those who celebrate)

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Joel Chan @kjoules.org · 7h

Well, duh

www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...

Chinese airlines oppose Trump plan to stop flying over Russia on US routes

Major Chinese airlines on Tuesday urged the Trump administration to abandon a plan to bar them from flying over Russia on U.S. flights, saying it would boost flight times, raise air fares and could disrupt some routes.

www.reuters.com

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Cindy Wan @cindywan.bsky.social · 6h

It’s not a competition, or is it?

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Jarrod Watt @jaywatt.bsky.social · 7h

“Given the major payouts at stake, the tides could be turning in favor of artists who had their lifework sucked up by AI models without permission, who could be looking at another consolation prize in the form of a settlement fee.” futurism.com/artificial-i...

OpenAI in Danger After Authors Suing It Gain Access to Its Internal Slack Messages

Authors and publishers, who are suing OpenAI, secured access to internal Slack messages and emails discussing the deletion of pirated books.

futurism.com

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Cindy Wan @cindywan.bsky.social · 8h

Although he had been suffering from cognitive decline in the past couple of years, I am very saddened by the death of artist Drew Struzan, movie poster artist and designer extraordinaire.
His artwork was iconic, and will exist forever.
Drew Struzan, 1947-2025, R.I.P.

Drew Struzan in 2008.
Photo by Alexandra Wyman.

Drew Struzan’s three posters for the “Star Wars” Prequel Trilogy (above), and the three posters for the theatrical and video re-release of the original “Star Wars” trilogy (below).

Drew Struzan’s posters for the “Back to the Future” trilogy.

Drew Struzan’s poster for “The Goonies”.

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 1d

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Cindy Wan @cindywan.bsky.social · 23h

Is it true that “several hundred” was 900, closer to “almost a thousand”?

Hong Kong Free Press HKFP @hongkongfp.com · 1d

The Chinese University of Hong Kong has rejected "several hundred" applications with suspected fake credentials, a school official said on Saturday. In full: buff.ly/N3mKo3a

Chinese University of Hong Kong rejects several hundred applicants with fraudulent credentials | Hong Kong Free Press HKFP

The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) has rejected “several hundred” applications with suspected fake credentials during this year’s application period, a school official said on Saturday....

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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 1d

Multiple airports are now announcing they will refuse to play Kristi Noem’s government-funded video blaming “Democrats” for the government shutdown.

“We believe the Hatch Act clearly prohibits use of public assets for political purposes and messaging,” one airport said.

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Cindy Wan @cindywan.bsky.social · 1d

His identity revealed puts his life in danger…

Cindy Wan @cindywan.bsky.social · 1d

Phone books and Yellow pages!

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Matthew Bradford @matthewbradford.bsky.social · 1d

The collapse of the China spy case says more about Britain than China, and more about our economy than any Treasury forecast. The Government has made clear they think we have no choice: Beijing’s cash is more important than our laws.

Is there national security without economic security?

The collapse of the China spy trial shows the cost of failing to protect our economic security by getting domestic investors to support our growth.

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Cindy Wan @cindywan.bsky.social · 1d

黃色！

Anat Shenker-Osorio @anatosaurus.bsky.social · 1d

A unifying color (and/or symbol) has been integral to movements against fascism across places and times. It allows us to know we are indeed a very big we. And to telegraph to others our beliefs in freedom and fairness, prosperity and peace. It makes us a team folks want to join.

Bright yellow background with No Kings written at the top left, below a crown Xed out in red. Below that the words: Saturday, October 18th. Wear yellow. Show up. Show out. nokings.org
Lower right a sign reading "Rejecting Kings Since 1776" and an arm holding it up on a stick.

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 1d

I don't know how many times to point out that is absolutely ghoulish and non-consensual and disgusting behavior.
To exploit the image of a dead woman who was also exploited in real life so you can live out your momentary fantasies of "what is possible" with AI is bad science journalism, also.
Sick.

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Marilyn Monroe in Game of Thrones? AI Could Make It Happen Soon

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

Screenshot includes an AI generated image of what looks like a human cross between Daenaerys Targaryen and Marilyn Monroe on the back of a dragon.

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Cindy Wan @cindywan.bsky.social · 1d

That Muppet episode of SNW they promoted?