Нидерландский фотограф Рубен Лундгрен годами собирал необычные изображения товаров на китайской платформе электронной коммерции Taobao.
На сайте представлены миллионы компаний, которые продают огромное количество необычных товаров: от золотых туалетов и мертвых комаров до глубоководных судов.
Лундгрен был так настолько очарован и поражен, что в 2020 году опубликовал фотоальбом «Вау, Таобао».
Подробнее об истории Лундгрена и его творческом пути в Китае — в материале ЭКД.
Нидерландский фотограф Рубен Лундгрен годами собирал необычные изображения товаров на китайской платформе электронной коммерции Taobao.
На сайте представлены миллионы компаний, которые продают огромное количество необычных товаров: от золотых туалетов и мертвых комаров до глубоководных судов.
Лундгрен был так настолько очарован и поражен, что в 2020 году опубликовал фотоальбом «Вау, Таобао».
Подробнее об истории Лундгрена и его творческом пути в Китае — в материале ЭКД.
Channels are not fully encrypted, end-to-end. All communications on a Telegram channel can be seen by anyone on the channel and are also visible to Telegram. Telegram may be asked by a government to hand over the communications from a channel. Telegram has a history of standing up to Russian government requests for data, but how comfortable you are relying on that history to predict future behavior is up to you. Because Telegram has this data, it may also be stolen by hackers or leaked by an internal employee. The next bit isn’t clear, but Durov reportedly claimed that his resignation, dated March 21st, was an April Fools’ prank. TechCrunch implies that it was a matter of principle, but it’s hard to be clear on the wheres, whos and whys. Similarly, on April 17th, the Moscow Times quoted Durov as saying that he quit the company after being pressured to reveal account details about Ukrainians protesting the then-president Viktor Yanukovych. But the Ukraine Crisis Media Center's Tsekhanovska points out that communications are often down in zones most affected by the war, making this sort of cross-referencing a luxury many cannot afford. The company maintains that it cannot act against individual or group chats, which are “private amongst their participants,” but it will respond to requests in relation to sticker sets, channels and bots which are publicly available. During the invasion of Ukraine, Pavel Durov has wrestled with this issue a lot more prominently than he has before. Channels like Donbass Insider and Bellum Acta, as reported by Foreign Policy, started pumping out pro-Russian propaganda as the invasion began. So much so that the Ukrainian National Security and Defense Council issued a statement labeling which accounts are Russian-backed. Ukrainian officials, in potential violation of the Geneva Convention, have shared imagery of dead and captured Russian soldiers on the platform. The news also helped traders look past another report showing decades-high inflation and shake off some of the volatility from recent sessions. The Bureau of Labor Statistics' February Consumer Price Index (CPI) this week showed another surge in prices even before Russia escalated its attacks in Ukraine. The headline CPI — soaring 7.9% over last year — underscored the sticky inflationary pressures reverberating across the U.S. economy, with everything from groceries to rents and airline fares getting more expensive for everyday consumers.
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