This article reveals the innerworkings of censorship of TikTok contents. /* [ByteDance] eventually decided not to [develop an algorithm that could automatically detect when a Douyin user spoke Uyghur]: We didn't have enough Uyghur language data points in our system */

Starting the week with excellent news: the new version of Jason Chao Memespector GUI is now out! This amazing research software was expanded in the context of a collaborative project about #ComputerVisionNetworks at @CAISnrw ---> github.com/jason-chao/mem… #digitalmethods

Great to see 🇪🇺 (EU-EEAS) openly stands with the people of 🇲🇴 on the unjust disqualification of pro-democracy candidates and the end of the last free election to public office under the effective jurisdiction of 🇨🇳

Enriching image data with AI: in tomorrow’s Research Tech Lab w/ Jason Chao participants will learn how to exploit #AI technologies to enrich image datasets by using Memespector-GUI: an #opensource graphical user interface client for #computervision APIs >bit.ly/3m2AQSm

Pillar of Shame ー Pillar ＝ Shame

📣✨✨ [reminder] Three days left to close applications for the #SMARTdatasprint 2022 in the first week of February>> info: smart.inovamedialab.org/2022-discussin… Looking forward to meeting you in Lisbon or in remote mode! #digitalmethods iNOVA Media Lab I ICNOVA - Instituto de Comunicação da NOVA I NOVA FCSH I NOVA

The host: How do you solve a problem like Cummings? Raab: I am not really sure ... 🙈 #no10party

Solving #Wordle with ease using #WordleSolver - This is my answer to the Wordle hype wordle-solver.jasontc.net

Happy Lunar New Year! 🐅

2. Donate money to support the Ukrainian Army. You can transfer money to the following accounts: 🇺🇦 bank.gov.ua/en/news/all/na… 🇺🇦 savelife.in.ua/en/donate/ 3. Organize street protests in your city to support Ukraine and condemn Russian aggression

It was a privilege to deliver statements to the #UN 🇺🇳 Human Rights Committee about #humanrightsviolations in 🇭🇰🇲🇴 of 🇨🇳 in Geneva. #iccpr #humanrights #china #hongkong #macau

#Macau 🇲🇴 is increasingly suppressed by authoritarian Beijing. "Patriot" editorial guidelines limit #FreedomOfSpeech, #MigrantWorkers are deprived of their right to assembly...Tune in to the latest episode of Vision on China with Jason Chao to learn more! rti.org.tw/radio/programM…

Já há algum tempo queria escrever sobre Macau 🇲🇴, essa ex-colônia de 🇵🇹 e hoje parte da 🇨🇳 sobre a qual falamos tão pouco. Surgiu a oportunidade, e agradeço muito ao Jason Chao pela entrevista que concedeu à Folha de S.Paulo - "Repressão em Macau está esquecida" www1.folha.uol.com.br/mundo/2022/07/…

So amazed that the author could go to this extent... #sensory #ethnography #shota #queer #research 😇 Andersson, K. (2022). I am not alone – we are all alone: Using masturbation as an ethnographic method in research on shota subculture in Japan. Qualitative Research.

Solidarity with Ukraine ✊ (Russian Embassy, London)

I'm going to, "Civic Hacknight 010: Civic tech for dissent under authoritarianism" meetu.ps/e/LSnNf/4tTNP/i by g0v.london (we've moved!) featuring Jason Chao.

📣 🎉 Coming up is the next PyData London meetup #73 on 4th April: 1️⃣ ArcticDB Adventures - Abhi Thakur 2️⃣ The journey of building a public-facing and low-maintenance #Wordle Solver - Jason Chao Lightning talks⚡️in thread 🧵below 👇 meetu.ps/e/LXjjN/XtPs2/i

"The most worrying point is that people would not know whether or not they were committing a crime if they tried to criticise the government. We have observed how the national security law in Hong Kong has been vaguely interpreted" - my comment on another draconian Chinese law

Comforting lightning talk from Jason Chao on how ChatGPT won’t be taking our jobs any time soon… #pydatalondon