Levi Checketts

@lchecketts.bsky.social

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Ethicist at Hong Kong Baptist University, focusing on intersection of poverty, new technologies, and Catholic social ethics. Author of Poor Technologies: Artificial Intelligence and the Experience of Poverty. Co-Editor in Chief of Techné.

Sign in Chinese and English. English translation says “This is public area. Please do not let your dog piss and shit here. Thanks.”
Newspaper headline: China to ban vehicle door handles. The article notes the People’s Republic of China will ban Tesla’s “hidden” door handles which pose a safety hazard in emergency situations.
List of cities in China by population, Wikipedia page. As of 2023, the five largest cities in China by population are Chongqing (31.91 million), Shanghai (24.87 million), Beijing (21.86 million), Chengdu (21.403 million) and Guangzhou (18.827 million).[1][2][3] As of 2024, there are 18 megacities[4][5] (cities with a population of over 10 million), including Chongqing, Shanghai, Beijing, Chengdu, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Wuhan, Tianjin, Xi'an, Suzhou, Zhengzhou, Hangzhou, Shijiazhuang, Linyi, Dongguan, Qingdao, Changsha and Hefei.
An Eichenberg Peaceable Kingdom woodcut featuring a devil riding on a missile in the background. Included as well are an eagle and a dove, and a dragon under the other animals.
Detail of Eichenberg’s Peaceable Kingdom showing high rise buildings with smoke rising from them as a contrast to the animal co-existence of the foreground.
One of Eichenberg’s Peaceable Kingdom woodcuts featuring predator and prey animals sitting together with a small child in their center. An industrial city is in the background and a bare tree is behind the animals.
Detail of Hicks’s painting, showing Quakers and Native Americans exchanging and making agreements
One of Edward Hicks’s “Peaceable Kingdom” paintings, featuring many different animals, both carnivores and herbivores, living together with small children among them. In the background are Native Americans and Quakers.
One of Edward Hicks’s Peaceable Kingdom paintings
Butterful and Creamorous
Picture of G Dragon’s “Übermensch” world tour poster with a huge Nietzschean mustache drawn on