#china renaissance

[chinemagazine]

Disparition d'un homme d'affaires chinois, reconnu dans le secteurde la tech

Selon Bloomberg, la famille de Bao Fan, grand patron de la tech, a été informée qu'il "participait à une enquête", sans plus de détail

L’homme d’affaires chinois Bao Fan, connu dans le monde de la tech en Chine, est porté disparu, a annoncé sans d’autres explications son groupe. Bao Fan, 52 ans, est le cofondateur de China Renaissance, l’une des plus importantes banques d’affaires privée de Chine, spécialisée dans les investissements dans la tech. Le groupe a supervisé notamment l’entrée en Bourse de plusieurs géants du…

[malewifenjoyer]

plushies of all the hosts which release September 20th as crane prizes in namco stores

[emaadsidiki]

Buonasera a tutti 🌇

[thepastisalreadywritten]

Evolution of Style.

[fourtyforever]

not nico rosberg trending askajsladjakfkdk

[themoonofentelecheia]

Only roses match you.

── Zhichu, Rose and Renaissance

[enjoyedbygod]

The iron chair, a torture device that has several variants according to its origin and use throughout history. It is also known as the Chinese torture chair or torture chair. The concept of "Torture" iron chair originated in the European Middle Ages, although it was also used worldwide with different variations. This torture device that was added to the dungeons in the Middle Ages. He experienced his peak in popularity in Europe.

During the Middle Ages, the iron chair was used as a punishment. Crimes punishable by the iron chair include adultery, witchcraft, murder, etc. The instrument was used until the end of the 19th century in Europe. In all cases, the victim was sat on several strips or brass plates and placed on an open flame and slowly roasted alive. "In other variations, the victim was tied to an iron chair and then slowly pushed her closer and closer to a burning fire."

The iron chair has many different variations depending on its location, but consisted of 500-1500 spikes covering the entire chair with a hole in the seat to place under fire and coal. Another variation of the iron chair was called the Chinese torture chair because it was a very common torture technique in China. Although the Chinese torture chair is slightly different, it was used in the same psychological way as the European version. The Chinese torture chair was used between 1701 and 1900 in China and was "... "made of wood with 12 steel sheets on the arms, backrest, footrests and seat".

According to scientists, this device was used with convicted or suspected people because it instilled fear in the person. It was used to extract confessions from people watching them torture another. If that failed, the person himself had to suffer too. The Iron Chair"... resides mainly in the psychological fear it causes in the victim" (Medieval). The iron chair was particularly unique because it was based on psychological effects rather than physical, unlike many other instruments of torture. Physically, this instrument pierces the skin while the person is strapped firmly to the chair. If they don't cooperate, the person is bound harder, sinking the thorns deeper into their flesh. The large hole at the bottom of the seat was made to place coal and fire underneath to burn the victims' lower bodies and slowly burn them alive. This torture technique did not necessarily cause death itself, it was usually followed by an infection after the person was freed. Death was far from instantaneous with the iron chair.

Science Museum, London.

[someemochick]

Tibetan women working in a crypto mining farm Antminer decommissioning their Bitcoin mining operations in China after the country banned it. Specifically the Tibet location. Accidental Renaissance but cyberpunk

[hotstreak2k3]

Disney’s Mulan released 26 years ago today. 🐉☯️ ⚔️

[powpowhammer]

@blotthis tagged me for ten songs I am vibing with. I confess to having a relationship with music listening that some would call 'lame' as I have basically never built a relationship to an artist or their body of work (except for john themountaingoats darnielle). I blame my boomer father for burning out those receptors in my youth by inadvertently filling my head with the entire beatles discography, leaving no room for me to become a teen who liked music for cultural reasons (I became a ska kid but because of other reasons). sorry I don't have spotify.

yerbatero (2010) - juanes. I am basically always listening to this song.

washington square (2011) - the correspondents. if you look up the music video it's exactly what you think a bunch of nerds into burlesque would make. I think it's good when something is horny but also sopping wet lame about it. this is the number one song I'd sing at karaoke if they had it but they'll never have it.

the rockafeller skank (1998) - fatboy slim. I put on this song on two weeks ago via free association and have been studying it ever since, mostly for its use of sample as instrumentation. (I went and also listened to all its samplees, too.) two things about this: 1) crit about this alludes to the existence to a uk-based genre called 'big beat' but all the writing about big beat just refers back to fatboy slim. cycle of internet ouroboros complete. 2) I imprinted heavily on the digimon the movie soundtrack.

careful with that hat! (2009? 2010?) - citay

the story in your eyes (1971) - the moody blues. ethan has a horrible tendency to fixate on the phrase 'from the ashes of the old' when we discuss reform versus revolution and every time he does I have to put this on. and then bap him with a newspaper

communication with the dead (2013?) - unclear. I think I would be much more into gabber than I am if I had had more freedom (financial, personal) as a young person. this song was made available for free but the links are defunct. if you want it in 320 message me

acid disco homegirls (2015) - the hair kid. I spend a lot of time on soundcloud but am deliberately not including here all the 45-second-to-three-minute soundclowns I love to accumulate because I respect my followers' time.

cadaver sniffing dog (2019) - the mountain goats. this is my favorite song from this album. I saw him on tour when he was debuting this material. the concert went on for twenty years. man simply has insane stamina

extremely online (2019) - mc frontalot. noone told me that he had an album out after question bedtime until like january this year. what the fuck. damian I love you

call ticketron (2016) - rtj. I was gonna put legend has it and then I was like. well we just had that echolalia post and the cadence of the live from the garden sample has definitely invaded my phonobulary

bonus - current work loop

let's tag some mutuals! some mutuals blot didn't already tag. mutuals who only have a normal amount of emotions about ace attorney. mutuals who love, and dream, and kill. @literallymechanical @waywardking @blasphemous-lies-and-deceit @relia-robot @falindrith @efortmanteau

[gobbogoo]

I'm no historian so stop me if I'm wrong, but:

Medieval/Renaissance Europe was basically a bunch of step siblings who all shared one deceased mother (Rome) and different fathers (saxons, goths, gauls, etc) being forced to live in the same house. And since they couldn't murder one another (much) without pissing off their uncle/landlord, Mr. Vatican, they instead formed the most complicated web of politics ever conceived and started taking out their anger on random strangers (via holy crusades) or paternal cousins (like Scotland).

[carlocarrasco]

POGO operations inside Parañaque village continuing despite nationwide ban

Recently in the city of Parañaque, it was revealed that there still some Philippine Offshore Gaming Operators (POGO) hubs inside a certain village operating even though the nationwide ban came into effect, according to a GMA Network news report. To put things in perspective, posted below is the excerpt from the GMA news article. Some parts in boldface… A homeowners association (HOA) in…

[memoriae-lectoris]

The sumptuary laws of the late Middle Ages and Renaissance eras were attempts to define the social meaning of attire. These laws were a response to new social mobility and instability that came with economic prosperity.

As Europe emerged from the Dark Ages, new technologies, new trade opportunities, increased migration, and population growth destabilized the older social order. The scope and magnitude of the changes in the late Middle Ages rivaled those of the Industrial Revolution of the nineteenth century or of today’s era of high technology and globalization. The twelfth century saw the development of manufactured paper, the invention of the magnetic compass, and the construction of the first known windmill.

The Hanseatic League of cities, at its height in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, included outposts as far east as Russia and as far west as London and controlled trade in the Baltic and North Seas, bringing expanded trade, new wealth, and new ideas.

The Silk Road trade route was dramatically expanded in the thirteenth century, bringing to Europe the technologies and goods of the East, most significantly China, then the greatest manufacturing power in human history.

The first European universities were established in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, and scholars in Italy, England, France, Spain, and Portugal began to translate Greek and Arabic texts, introducing both lost ancient and newly innovated mathematic, scientific, and philosophical ideas to Europe.

This explosion of technology and trade allowed merchants, tradespeople, bankers, and other members of the petite bourgeoisie to indulge in conspicuous luxury previously exclusive to the landed aristocracy. Meanwhile, a thriving market in used—sometimes stolen—clothing threatened to further dilute the prestige, and confuse the social meaning, of attire.

[immaculatasknight]

Bring a world wide renaissance

[toosvanholstein]

Kou in Florence, een omhooglopende dakgoot + Teylers en Hockney: oftewel de wereld in perspectief

Met kou in Florence, een schuin omhoog lopende dakgoot en het Oog van Hockney zet Toos van Holstein in haar TOOS&ART aan het eind van dit jaar de wereld maar even in perspectief #kunst #art #expositie

Negentien jaar geleden liep ik in december met diep in de zakken gestoken handen rond in Florence. Wist ik veel dat het daar dan best goed koud kon zijn. Italië toch zeker? Dus in kledij had ik daarmee even geen rekening gehouden bij mijn deelname aan de Biennale Internazionale dell’ Arte Contemporanea in het oude Fortezza da Basso. Deze herinnering kwam vorige week bovenborrelen in het Teylers…