<story><title>Naomi Wu video demonetized on YouTube</title><url>https://twitter.com/RealSexyCyborg/status/1486526916433641472</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Animats</author><text>Naomi Wu seems to upset a lot of people. She makes things, and was accused by the publisher of &amp;quot;Make&amp;quot; magazine of being a fake, with some guy doing the actual work. She replied by posting long, detailed videos of her making stuff. An hour of cutting aluminum extrusions with a chop saw and putting together a frame. Soldering PC boards. Eventually, the guy apologized.&lt;p&gt;One of the useful things she&amp;#x27;s done is to put up lots of videos of her running around Shenzhen. There aren&amp;#x27;t enough ground-level videos of the working parts of Chinese cities. There&amp;#x27;s extensive coverage of Tokyo, by comparison. It&amp;#x27;s interesting to see the high-density housing blocks and street-level activity. (The &amp;quot;let&amp;#x27;s increase housing density&amp;quot; crowd from Strong Towns should watch those videos.) People who&amp;#x27;ve met her report that she knows Shenzhen very well, down to the back alley level, where some unmarked door leads to an important factory. She&amp;#x27;s toured the electronics markets of Huaqiangbei. (I miss the days when Silicon Valley had electronics parts stores.)&lt;p&gt;She&amp;#x27;s done some nice technical work. Her main thing is 3D printing, and she came up with the first angled 3D printer that worked reliably. The print head moves in a plane 45 degrees from vertical, and the base surface is a belt, which advances the workpiece one layer at a time. So it can produce objects continuously, or very long objects if you add support rollers. Others had made prototypes of such machines, but the properties of the belt and print head are touchy to make that work right. She got it all working, and it&amp;#x27;s now a product, with her picture on the box.&lt;p&gt;At various times she&amp;#x27;s pushed on GPL compliance, mask quality, and other issues of interest to the tech community.&lt;p&gt;She wears skimpy outfits sometimes. So what? That&amp;#x27;s most of Instagram. Unlike most Instagrammers, Wu has something original to say. Sometimes with a biting wit. I gather that it&amp;#x27;s more biting in Cantonese.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kragen</author><text>I wonder what fraction of people here commenting disapprovingly about her choice of wardrobe think YouTube should demonetize videos of bodybuilding competitions, male rock stars, or boxing.  Because apparently those are super sexy, though I think the bodybuilding thing appeals to more gay men than to het women.&lt;p&gt;Also apparently a lot of male gamer Youtubers are considered sexy, even though they don&amp;#x27;t have exaggerated secondary sexual characteristics like giant muscles, and I&amp;#x27;ve never heard of them getting demonetized for it: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;ar.pinterest.com&amp;#x2F;madelineulatows&amp;#x2F;logan-paul-sexy&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;ar.pinterest.com&amp;#x2F;madelineulatows&amp;#x2F;logan-paul-sexy&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;ar.pinterest.com&amp;#x2F;ktatianalima203&amp;#x2F;rubius-sexy-3&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;ar.pinterest.com&amp;#x2F;ktatianalima203&amp;#x2F;rubius-sexy-3&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Naomi Wu video demonetized on YouTube</title><url>https://twitter.com/RealSexyCyborg/status/1486526916433641472</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Animats</author><text>Naomi Wu seems to upset a lot of people. She makes things, and was accused by the publisher of &amp;quot;Make&amp;quot; magazine of being a fake, with some guy doing the actual work. She replied by posting long, detailed videos of her making stuff. An hour of cutting aluminum extrusions with a chop saw and putting together a frame. Soldering PC boards. Eventually, the guy apologized.&lt;p&gt;One of the useful things she&amp;#x27;s done is to put up lots of videos of her running around Shenzhen. There aren&amp;#x27;t enough ground-level videos of the working parts of Chinese cities. There&amp;#x27;s extensive coverage of Tokyo, by comparison. It&amp;#x27;s interesting to see the high-density housing blocks and street-level activity. (The &amp;quot;let&amp;#x27;s increase housing density&amp;quot; crowd from Strong Towns should watch those videos.) People who&amp;#x27;ve met her report that she knows Shenzhen very well, down to the back alley level, where some unmarked door leads to an important factory. She&amp;#x27;s toured the electronics markets of Huaqiangbei. (I miss the days when Silicon Valley had electronics parts stores.)&lt;p&gt;She&amp;#x27;s done some nice technical work. Her main thing is 3D printing, and she came up with the first angled 3D printer that worked reliably. The print head moves in a plane 45 degrees from vertical, and the base surface is a belt, which advances the workpiece one layer at a time. So it can produce objects continuously, or very long objects if you add support rollers. Others had made prototypes of such machines, but the properties of the belt and print head are touchy to make that work right. She got it all working, and it&amp;#x27;s now a product, with her picture on the box.&lt;p&gt;At various times she&amp;#x27;s pushed on GPL compliance, mask quality, and other issues of interest to the tech community.&lt;p&gt;She wears skimpy outfits sometimes. So what? That&amp;#x27;s most of Instagram. Unlike most Instagrammers, Wu has something original to say. Sometimes with a biting wit. I gather that it&amp;#x27;s more biting in Cantonese.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Jach</author><text>A user (I&amp;#x27;ll leave them unstated) deleted a reply with a metaphor along the lines of &amp;quot;what do you expect if someone wears a clown suit when speaking at a technical conference?&amp;quot; Well, here&amp;#x27;s her speaking at a tech conference, in &amp;quot;context-appropriate&amp;quot; attire that is neither skimpy nor a clown suit: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=mt1OLgGIqhc&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=mt1OLgGIqhc&lt;/a&gt; In &amp;quot;She wears skimpy outfits sometimes&amp;quot;, &lt;i&gt;sometimes&lt;/i&gt; is really the operative word.</text></comment>