<p><a href="/tags/gpt/" rel="tag">#GPT</a>’s vocabulary behaves the worst: more than 23% long <a href="/tags/chinese/" rel="tag">#Chinese</a> tokens (i.e., a token with more than two Chinese characters) are either <a href="/tags/porn/" rel="tag">#porn</a> or online <a href="/tags/gambling/" rel="tag">#gambling</a>. <br><a href="https://arxiv.org/html/2508.17771v1" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>arxiv.org/html/2508.17771v1</a></p>
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<p><a href="/tags/tether/" rel="tag">#Tether</a>, a company whose capital probably comes from <a href="/tags/china/" rel="tag">#China</a> and which earns 5% interest on ~$100 billion for doing nothing, has been branching out and investing in:</p><p>1. a chinese bitcoin transaction processor (some call them "miners") manufacturer <a href="/tags/bitdeer/" rel="tag">#Bitdeer</a></p><p>2. random agriculture companies in argentina with a sub 3% ROI (less than Tether would get doing nothing and collecting 5%) <a href="https://t.co/R15JFCMRhD" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>t.co/R15JFCMRhD</a></p><p>3. <a href="/tags/satellogic/" rel="tag">#Satellogic</a>, a manufacturer of spy satellites that is currently losing $30-50 million per year (much less than the guaranteed 5%)</p><p>to say this is shady would be an understatement but it is of a piece with some of Tether's other recent bailouts of allegedly fraudulent companies like <a href="/tags/northerndata/" rel="tag">#NorthernData</a> </p><p><a href="/tags/crypto/" rel="tag">#crypto</a> <a href="/tags/stablecoins/" rel="tag">#stablecoins</a> <a href="/tags/stablecoin/" rel="tag">#stablecoin</a> <a href="/tags/cryptocurrency/" rel="tag">#cryptocurrency</a> <a href="/tags/bitcoin/" rel="tag">#bitcoin</a> <a href="/tags/bitcoinmining/" rel="tag">#bitcoinmining</a> <a href="/tags/argentina/" rel="tag">#argentina</a> <a href="/tags/satl/" rel="tag">#SATL</a> <a href="/tags/adecoagro/" rel="tag">#Adecoagro</a> <a href="/tags/espionage/" rel="tag">#espionage</a> <a href="/tags/satellite/" rel="tag">#satellite</a> <a href="/tags/spy/" rel="tag">#spy</a> <a href="/tags/chinese/" rel="tag">#Chinese</a> <a href="/tags/jihanwu/" rel="tag">#JihanWu</a></p>
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<p>"In Mandarin Chinese, World Wide Web is commonly translated via a phono-semantic matching to wàn wéi wǎng (万维网), which satisfies www and literally means "10,000-dimensional net", a translation that reflects the design concept and proliferation of the World Wide Web."</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Wide_Web" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Wide_Web"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Wi</span><span class="invisible">de_Web</span></a></p><p>via <a href="https://mastodon.social/@mcc/114605076806447333" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="mastodon.social/@mcc/114605076806447333"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">mastodon.social/@mcc/114605076</span><span class="invisible">806447333</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/internet/" rel="tag">#internet</a> <a href="/tags/theweb/" rel="tag">#TheWeb</a> <a href="/tags/worldwideweb/" rel="tag">#WorldWideWeb</a> <a href="/tags/chinese/" rel="tag">#chinese</a> <a href="/tags/language/" rel="tag">#language</a> <a href="/tags/linguistics/" rel="tag">#linguistics</a></p>
<p>'Do you want to show strength here?': russia's ads recruiting <a href="/tags/chinese/" rel="tag">#Chinese</a> mercenaries</p><p>More than 150 Chinese nationals are fighting for russia in <a href="/tags/ukraine/" rel="tag">#Ukraine</a>, Volodymyr <a href="/tags/zelenskyy/" rel="tag">#Zelenskyy</a> has said, recruited via videos on social media</p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/apr/10/russia-social-media-ads-videos-recruiting-china-mercenaries" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.theguardian.com/world/2025/apr/10/russia-social-media-ads-videos-recruiting-china-mercenaries"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.theguardian.com/world/2025</span><span class="invisible">/apr/10/russia-social-media-ads-videos-recruiting-china-mercenaries</span></a></p>
<p>I noticed this ownership seal said "university" so I was like "oh, I wonder which Chinese university this could be, let me look it up"</p><p>... Harvard. It says it's from the Harvard University Library. They have an official Chinese seal for stamping their Chinese manuscripts </p><p><a href="/tags/chinese/" rel="tag">#chinese</a> <a href="/tags/classicalchinese/" rel="tag">#classicalchinese</a></p>
<p>托管了一个kiwix知识库 <br>含有28个zim文件,大小为53GB,包含了绝大部分中文wiki以及感兴趣的几个ted-xxx.zim,从 <a href="https://library.kiwix.org/" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>library.kiwix.org/</a> 使用aria2c直链下载</p><p>1. 接下来是上传到backblaze B2<br>2. 以及设置密码( ?)</p><p>├── chinese.stackexchange.com_mul_all_2025-12.zim<br>├── gutenberg_zh_all_2025-12.zim<br>├── ifixit_zh_all_2024-06.zim<br>├── matrix67.com_zh_blog_2025-11.zim<br>├── phet_mul_all_2025-06.zim<br>├── ted_mul_ai_2025-10.zim<br>├── ted_mul_blockchain_2025-10.zim<br>├── ted_mul_tech_2025-10.zim<br>├── wikibooks_zh_all_maxi_2025-10.zim<br>├── wikinews_zh_all_maxi_2025-10.zim<br>├── wikipedia_zh_all_maxi_2025-09.zim<br>├── wikipedia_zh_basketball_maxi_2025-07.zim<br>├── wikipedia_zh_chemistry_maxi_2025-12.zim<br>├── wikipedia_zh_computer_maxi_2025-12.zim<br>├── wikipedia_zh_football_maxi_2025-12.zim<br>├── wikipedia_zh_geography_maxi_2025-12.zim<br>├── wikipedia_zh_history_maxi_2025-12.zim<br>├── wikipedia_zh_mathematics_maxi_2025-12.zim<br>├── wikipedia_zh_medicine_maxi_2025-12.zim<br>├── wikipedia_zh_molcell_maxi_2025-12.zim<br>├── wikipedia_zh_movies_maxi_2025-12.zim<br>├── wikipedia_zh_physics_maxi_2025-12.zim<br>├── wikipedia_zh_top_maxi_2025-12.zim<br>├── wikiquote_zh_all_maxi_2025-12.zim<br>├── wikisource_zh_all_maxi_2025-09.zim<br>├── wikiversity_zh_all_maxi_2026-01.zim<br>├── wikivoyage_zh_all_maxi_2025-12.zim<br>└── wiktionary_zh_all_nopic_2025-04.zim</p><p><a href="/tags/wikipedia/" rel="tag">#wikipedia</a> <a href="/tags/wiki/" rel="tag">#wiki</a> <a href="/tags/kiwix/" rel="tag">#kiwix</a> <a href="/tags/zim/" rel="tag">#zim</a> <a href="/tags/chinese/" rel="tag">#chinese</a> <a href="/tags/zh/" rel="tag">#zh</a> <a href="/tags/ifixit/" rel="tag">#ifixit</a> <a href="/tags/ted/" rel="tag">#ted</a></p>
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