https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adq3334

Shanghai has seen a boom in cafes, with the government claiming it now has more than any other place in the world.

Shanghai: How the coffee shop culture became popular in the city

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/crgk1ll00myo

https://www.swellfun.com/upload/20240531/8d2038fa906536bfcc19d1d517cc888d.pdf

i have migrated off fka bird site, but still pop in for incredible gems like this

the former SEC head leaving, pissing off those he prevented from becoming overnight billionaires, which wouldve forced everyone on this site to pay adobe $40/mth, i think he did a good job then lol

You can tell that the west and Silicon Valley are no longer the leaders in innovation because no English app has the hold with one finger to watch on 2x, but every Chinese app does

theres probably a way to actually use it to shoot portraits, but so far ive learned it does not like big swings of contrast.

This is absolutely fucking insane 

> YC partner Jared Friedman says the company could do for missiles what SpaceX did for rockets.
> Friedman says the missile startup's work could be critical if China were to wage war on Taiwan.

Pistachio dirty iced latte at Metal Hands. Chinese coffee places do a thing called dirty which is just a shot of espresso pulled into cold milk

You could say….. that I am……. a chocoholic

successfully ordering luckin coffee deserves some sort of irl achievement badge

this publication made me emotional today 
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adq3334

Extremely hot and steamy day calls for 5 bowls of hot soup.

Asian people tacooo night 🎶You get some tortillas from the grocery store 🎶 y algos limons desde el groceria store

does anyone have a favorite merch/store supplier or platform? either just fulfillment, or even hosted store site?

i just realized why old chinese people are always yelling into their phones. typing in chinese is slow if you use a pinyin/zhuyin input keyboard, and unless youve learned wubi or boshiamy typing, speech to text is just so much faster. hence why voice msgs are so common in asia

WIP Asia cuteness design/branding power rankings

1: Taiwan, most cute. Everything is cute and perfect
2: China, wholesome spirit of communist togetherness. 
3: Korea, very friendly. Lots of dancing involved. Feels the most hip 
999: Japan, salaryman Keroppi smiling thru tears

9000 coffee shops in one city is a bit much. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/crgk1ll00myo

chinas oldest continuous baijiu distillery makes a yearly corporate ESG report its very cute https://www.swellfun.com/upload/20240531/8d2038fa906536bfcc19d1d517cc888d.pdf

p excited that instead of reading xiyouji as a bedtime story like my mom did for me, i can just play wukong with my kids

Fun part of studying language again in my 30s is pens are useful and important again in my daily life.

its so obvious that "public benefit" and "open" buzzwords in startup capitalism is now a farce. you can talk about caring about safety and openness all you want, but at the end of the day it was never going to work.

does anyone just put on absolute ratchet trash hyper pop to get rolling creatively

Millipede in Chinese is 钱串子, which is like “loop of coins / bbq skewer bug”.

Dukefest 4th in heat under 40, shredding with baby on board

So much discussion of tariffs these days makes me feel like I’m in a twilight zone. How do people not know how any of this works. I thought everyone learned this in 6th grade.

developing one roll of velvia is $75 which includes mailing it from hawaii to an underground film shop in SF 😪

Head in Chinese is 脑袋, which means something like “brain bag”

These are the people leading AI in America, specifically NeurIPS 2024 lol

i am not here to post figma previews this is a yueru li stan account

ive missed every single south shore swell this summer because i was gone when it hit 😪

thought it was funny that apple rolled out a new ToS agreement this morning lol

Shanghai coffee culture is light years in the future

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