Burmese-Singaporean thinker Yan Naung Oak has a lovely piece on 'Seapunks':

Not scifi, which romanticizes technology; not cyberpunk, nor solarpunk.

But a uniquely SE Asian concept. Mandalas, Myanmar, environmentalism, capitalism and other topics:

'Captures our culture of living with and finding ways to thrive in a world that will continue to be neither completely utopian nor dystopian.'

I always enjoy Yan's work

https://livingwithshoggoths.substack.com/p/we-have-always-been-seapunks

BBC reporting on a scam factory city (#ShweKokko) in #Myanmar run by the Chinese mafia and funded by crypto fraud.

this is the dark mirror of the network state (which really is just an extension of it).

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c04nx1vnw17o

china's crackdown on pig butchering frauds etc. finally made the pages of the WSJ (it's been obviously happening for over a year now but still nice to see I guess)

* WSJ: https://www.wsj.com/world/asia/china-pushes-neighboring-countries-to-rein-in-scams-after-rare-public-outcry-1003a997
* no paywall: https://archive.ph/gAZPn