On Thursday, Donald Trump will walk into the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, shake Xi Jinping's hand, and declare it a great meeting. There will be announcements. There will be numbers — billions of dollars in Chinese purchase commitments, a new bilateral mechanism with an important-sounding name, possibly a joint statement on Iran. Trump will post on Truth Social. Markets will rally briefly. Pundits will argue about who won. None of that will tell you what actually happened. What is actually happening in Beijing this week is something more consequential and more uncomfortable than the summit theatre will reveal: two leaders of two deeply mutually dependent superpowers, both of whom need this meeting to succeed for entirely different reasons, sitting across a table in a world that has already moved past the assumptions that defined their last nine months of negotiations. The Iran war changed the equations. The rare earth gambit changed the power balance. Taiwan is sitting in...
This little project with let you see in real-time how busy Wikipedia is and how many folks around the world are actively involved in editing and making the resource we have all come to love, simply amazing. With wikistream you can choose which language you want to see edited and you can also decide if you want to watch articles, templates, photos and categories being edited. The web app is really cool to give you an insight into how much keeps going on on Wikipedia every single second. The stream never seems to stop not even for a second. There is always something going on this have made it into the phenomenon that it has become today. You will discover that articles keep getting tweaked and info is added all the time. The project explains itself this way wikistream is an experimental visualization of realtime edits in major language Wikipedias. Every time someone updates or creates a Wikipedia article you will see it ever so briefly in this list. And if someone uploads an image file...