Creativity meets computation. Throughout April, we’ll be plugging into artists, coders, and future thinkers who are redefining intelligence, authorship, and the human-machine relationship.
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First, meet Huaqiangbei: Located in Shenzhen, China, often called the largest electronics market in the world. But calling it a “market” barely captures it. It’s a multi-block, multi-floor maze of malls, stalls, and micro-shops where you can find everything from $200 iPhones to retro gadgets, knockoff tech, DIY parts, LED screens, cables, and things you didn’t even know existed. But lately, this wholesale hub is seeing a new demographic: the “Huaqiangbei Backpacker” (华强北背包客).
Why are youth treating a high-stress supply chain market like a cultural landmark? Young people are turning this hyper-commercial zone into an accidental “third space.” Forget carrying your travel essentials, the backpack seems to be more essential for retro Y2K gear now.
In a world of seamless digital convenience, its friction feels almost radical.
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First, meet Huaqiangbei: Located in Shenzhen, China, often called the largest electronics market in the world. But calling it a “market” barely captures it. It’s a multi-block, multi-floor maze of malls, stalls, and micro-shops where you can find everything from $200 iPhones to retro gadgets, knockoff tech, DIY parts, LED screens, cables, and things you didn’t even know existed. But lately, this wholesale hub is seeing a new demographic: the “Huaqiangbei Backpacker” (华强北背包客).
Why are youth treating a high-stress supply chain market like a cultural landmark? Young people are turning this hyper-commercial zone into an accidental “third space.” Forget carrying your travel essentials, the backpack seems to be more essential for retro Y2K gear now.
In a world of seamless digital convenience, its friction feels almost radical.
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#radiimedia #radii #y2k #huaqiangbei #china
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Vlogging in 2026 seems like it could just be done with a hairclip.
That’s @computer___angel , the indie hardware project by designer @cowjuh : still pre-launch, already thousands deep on the waitlist. The thesis is written straight into her grid subtitles: “I think a lot about how quickly footage expires. Sometimes within just a few hours.”
After a decade of the iPhone solving “taking a good photo,” a generation is quietly asking for the right to take lo-fi back. The camera stops being a tool you hold up and becomes something you wear. It’s the logical endpoint of a generation that’s been redesigning memory itself — softer, sillier, allowed to expire.
Plus you will agree with @cowjuh ’s thoughts about Southern China if you check her website :’)
#radii #radiimedia #ComputerAngel #LoFiCamera #GenZDesign
Vlogging in 2026 seems like it could just be done with a hairclip.
That’s @computer___angel , the indie hardware project by designer @cowjuh : still pre-launch, already thousands deep on the waitlist. The thesis is written straight into her grid subtitles: “I think a lot about how quickly footage expires. Sometimes within just a few hours.”
After a decade of the iPhone solving “taking a good photo,” a generation is quietly asking for the right to take lo-fi back. The camera stops being a tool you hold up and becomes something you wear. It’s the logical endpoint of a generation that’s been redesigning memory itself — softer, sillier, allowed to expire.
Plus you will agree with @cowjuh ’s thoughts about Southern China if you check her website :’)
#radii #radiimedia #ComputerAngel #LoFiCamera #GenZDesign
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Your favorite wuxia drama might be coming to life through the work of Chinese blogger Fan Shisan (范十三): the masked, socially-anxious, Chengdu-based ex-hotel worker who has become the Chinese internet’s most famous swordsman.
After being laid off in 2020, Fan went full-time on his childhood wuxia dream : first as a real swordwork practitioner, eventually breaking the Guinness World Records. But traditional swordwork wasn’t deep enough. He fused craft with engineering and invented something entirely his own: 科技修仙 — tech cultivation.
In an age of 996 and 内卷, Fan is the wuxia kid who refused to grow up. He dove deep enough to build his own xianxia world — and fly in it.
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Your favorite wuxia drama might be coming to life through the work of Chinese blogger Fan Shisan (范十三): the masked, socially-anxious, Chengdu-based ex-hotel worker who has become the Chinese internet’s most famous swordsman.
After being laid off in 2020, Fan went full-time on his childhood wuxia dream : first as a real swordwork practitioner, eventually breaking the Guinness World Records. But traditional swordwork wasn’t deep enough. He fused craft with engineering and invented something entirely his own: 科技修仙 — tech cultivation.
In an age of 996 and 内卷, Fan is the wuxia kid who refused to grow up. He dove deep enough to build his own xianxia world — and fly in it.
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Of course, Chongqing would find a way to program the night sky.
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Of course, Chongqing would find a way to program the night sky.
#radii #radiimedia #chongqing #drone #cyberpunk
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A Chinese developer just open-sourced his ex.
It`s called Ex.skill: an MIT-licensed Claude Code plugin that ingests your dead chat logs and resurrects your ex as an AI you can still text. In 2026, Gen Z heartbreak comes with a GitHub repo.
If you can distill one person, you can distill anyone. 女娲.skill (named for Nüwa, the Chinese goddess who shaped humans from clay) joins the game, feeding on the books, podcasts, and decision histories of figures like Steve Jobs or Charlie Munger, and makes them work for you. Mentor.skills turns a busy professor`s papers into a 24/7 advisor. 同事.skill ("colleague")... well, this one is pretty clear.
Maybe now it is the time to ask: is this the ultimate hack for productivity and emotional closure? Or are we quietly building a future where the people we love are just plugins waiting to be downloaded?
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A Chinese developer just open-sourced his ex.
It`s called Ex.skill: an MIT-licensed Claude Code plugin that ingests your dead chat logs and resurrects your ex as an AI you can still text. In 2026, Gen Z heartbreak comes with a GitHub repo.
If you can distill one person, you can distill anyone. 女娲.skill (named for Nüwa, the Chinese goddess who shaped humans from clay) joins the game, feeding on the books, podcasts, and decision histories of figures like Steve Jobs or Charlie Munger, and makes them work for you. Mentor.skills turns a busy professor`s papers into a 24/7 advisor. 同事.skill ("colleague")... well, this one is pretty clear.
Maybe now it is the time to ask: is this the ultimate hack for productivity and emotional closure? Or are we quietly building a future where the people we love are just plugins waiting to be downloaded?
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#radii #radiimedia #claudecode #exskill #aitrends #genz
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