Ukraine Daily summary - Saturday, March 15 2025

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Chinese student visas, ultra-long-lasting nuclear battery: SCMP daily highlights https://www.byteseu.com/828443/ #Beijing #China #Chinese #ChineseCities #ChineseScientists #ED #HillaryClinton #Iran #Nuclear #NuclearBattery #Republicans #Sanctions #Tehran #USHouse #Women'sRights #World'sFirst3DPrintedMaleSexOrgan

"Huawei bribery scandal rocks European Parliament"

https://www.politico.eu/article/belgian-police-raid-huawei-lobbyists-as-new-scandal-rocks-eu-parliament/

One of the most useful things I did was to take the Outlier course. Expensive, yes, but I'm a geek when it comes to learning how things work. Understanding this about Chinese characters not only helped me learn better but also helped me understand the logic, philosophical and historical reasons behind why each character was written this way.

#Chinese Pheasant, by Utagawa #Hiroshige (original from ca. 1830, recarved #woodblockprint from 1930).
#ukiyoe

"Chinese and Indigenous communities have shared histories. We faced hardships together while mining for gold in the British Columbia gold rush and experiencing the rugged Canadian weather and terrain.

There are many graves on First Nations territories when Chinese people died from the flu and from the building of the railway, crushed by landslides, collapsing tunnels and premature blastings (Mittelstedt, 2014). The First Nations communities took in the Chinese railroad workers and care for their grave sites to this day (Mittelstedt, 2014). We enjoyed economic success and partnerships that were respectful and mutually beneficial (Ma, 2012). Chinese people leased lands (on First Nations) to farm and then hired Indigenous people to help farm the land (Mathur et al., 2011, p. 74). The Chinese built elaborate gold-mining operations among First Nations communities and perhaps most importantly our communities intermingled and there were many marriages between Chinese men and Indigenous women. In 1891, 98% of Chinese people in Canada lived in British Columbia (Barman, 2013, p. 1), which explains why there are such intimate ties between Chinese people and our First Nations communities in British Columbia. Unsurprisingly, one in six Chinese men created a family with a local Indigenous woman (Barman, 2013, p. 1)."

https://fccrwc.com/chinese-and-indigenous-history-relationships-canada/

Opening tonight then running through Sept 7, #Seattle culture vultures: Rebel #chinese artist Ai Weiwei at three locations! His first U.S. retrospective in a decade. We should go! #art
https://www.seattleartmuseum.org/

#Corruption, #graft, illegal #commerce w #enemy powers - #musk is all about adding more #billions to his fortune by #exploiting his illegal role in destruction of federal government while at the same time profiting from international investments funneling who knows how much into his businesses. #Chinese investors privately take stakes in Musk’s companies. #Asset managers have been promoting tech mogul’s ties to #Trump to lure #capital to #xAI, #Neuralink and #SpaceX https://www.ft.com/content/66857e1e-a217-4ddd-8332-d9f0f75aa459?accessToken=zwAAAZYbp22xkc9mhX4eohdN3dODMtnw91qkWQE.MEQCIDfgx1CbdgLb2pqFh-9VR1VRX-awTUOx7gda2fNoLYyGAiB4CTS3xIYSCYJzeM_XEuEcg-I0ZAa_12l57mRQQuuJmA&segmentId=66857e1e-a217-4ddd-8332-d9f0f75aa459

Highway Robbery 2.0: How Attackers Are Exploiting Toll Systems in Phishing Scams

A massive SMS phishing campaign targeting U.S. drivers exploits various toll systems, including E-ZPass, SunPass, and TxTag. The scam uses fake payment alerts sent via iMessage and SMS from foreign numbers to lure victims to fraudulent websites. Analysis reveals a pattern in domain names and infrastructure, with most phishing sites hosted on Chinese ASNs like Tencent and Alibaba Cloud. The campaign employs nginx web servers and constantly shifts tactics to evade detection. Over 2,000 complaints have been filed with the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center, prompting warnings from the FTC and toll authorities. The scam's effectiveness stems from the inconsistency in legitimate toll collection domain names, making it challenging for users to distinguish between real and fake websites.

Pulse ID: 67cee3481de685393015d1b3
Pulse Link: https://otx.alienvault.com/pulse/67cee3481de685393015d1b3
Pulse Author: AlienVault
Created: 2025-03-10 13:04:08

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Ukraine Daily summary - 2025

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Good post on moving to Taiwan to study Chinese on a student visa: https://www.reddit.com/r/taiwan/comments/1j736ja/my_experience_moving_to_taiwan_to_study_chinese/

‘Ban These Chinese Routers NOW,’ Cries House Committee
TP-Link in crosshairs, along with other brands.

#Chinese consumer-grade networking gear is a dangerous #security threat, argue these fine gentlemen. Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-Illinois), Rob Joyce (former NSA director of cybersecurity) and Rep. John Moolenaar (R-Michigan) have hatched a plan to eradicate TP-Link routers and other plastic pigs from our homes.

#TPLINK on the other hand, is spitting feathers, arguing it’s not been a “Chinese” company for years. In #SBBlogwatch, we get familiar with #OpenWRT.

https://securityboulevard.com/2025/03/krishnamoorthi-joyce-moolenaar-tp-link-china-richixbw/?utm_source=richisoc&utm_medium=social&utm_content=richisoc&utm_campaign=richisoc

The #memoir I wrote with Dr. Bruce Miller is now available in #Chinese. Thank you Johns Hopkins UP & East China Normal UP. According to this article, "#China has the world's largest population of patients with #dementia, and #Alzheimer's disease and other dementias (ADOD) is the fifth leading cause of death in China." I hope this translation finds its way to people who are looking for information about #brain health, #grief, and #caregiving.

https://alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/alz.14254

The #memoir I wrote with Dr. Bruce Miller is now available in #Chinese. Thank you Johns Hopkins UP & East China Normal UP. According to this article, "#China has the world's largest population of patients with #dementia, and #Alzheimer's disease and other dementias (ADOD) is the fifth leading cause of death in China." I hope this translation finds its way to people who are looking for information about #brain health, #grief, and #caregiving.

https://alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/alz.14254

What I really like about meeting other southern Chinese people in the diaspora around the world is sometimes Mandarin is all of our shared language and we love to speak it badly to each other. Speaking Mandarin as far away from the Beijing / northern accent is an act of pride for me

To a southerner like me, dongbeihua might as well be a Celtic language to an English speaker, or really to be more linguistically correct more like Portuguese to German, but some of this stuff is pretty funny

https://mstdn.social/@globalvoices/114102216592504099

Ukraine Daily summary - Monday, March 3 2025

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