When Canadian company Sandvine (since rebranded as AppLogic Networks) withdrew from the Pakistani market under U.S. sanctions in 2023, it left behind a trove of deep-packet inspection hardware embedded in the country’s telecom infrastructure. Rather than dismantling the surveillance capability, Chinese company Geedge Networks apparently stepped in, retrofitted| The Nexus
As of September 2025, approximately 170 million Americans spend, on average, one hour every day in an app that is designed to maximize psychological grip. While Congress fixates on TikTok’s data collection usages, what hasn’t received enough attention is how the platform has successfully industrialized human attention itself.| The Nexus
Photo by Tianhao Zhang on UnsplashWhen ChatGPT translated a passage from Mo Yan's Red Sorghum, it turned “高粱地里的风声” into “the sound of wind in the sorghum fields.” Which is technically correct, but it’s stripped| The Nexus
Photo by Richard Liu on UnsplashThis morning, I overheard my grandparents discussing my cousin’s latest gaokao mock exam. It went something like this: Grandpa: “He still has two years.” Grandma: “Which university does he want to attend?” Grandpa: “The one in Hong| The Nexus
What a 2,500-year-old teacher can tell us about AI, dialogue, and the power of words I first encountered Confucius in middle school, through freshly printed versions of The Analects. The Confucius Analects, a slim collection of dialogues between the philosopher and his students, revealed to me one thing about| The Nexus
Your credit score is social credit. Your LinkedIn endorsements are social credit. Your Uber passenger rating, Instagram engagement metrics, Amazon reviews, and Airbnb host status are all social credit systems that track you, score you, and reward you based on your behavior. Social credit, in its original economic definition, means| The Nexus
