Weifang fuels industrial innovation with smart manufacturing: customized Beidou-equipped tractors, algorithm-driven R&D, and AI-powered smart glasses. Technology, enterprise, and talent combine to power high-quality development.

Weird isn't just visual. Weird is whatever strays from the norm. Weird is relative to the current state of the world. You can have weird principles. They should be things people can legitimately disagree with. You have to remember Obsidian was very weird when it launched six years ago. Local files, malleability, backlinks, graph, even Markdown syntax... these were not as widely understood and accepted as they are today. That's why I spent so much time writing essays like "File over app" to try and explain our choices. The goal was to describe why our weird ideas should be normal, and it worked! Now the world has somewhat caught up and accepted those choices, so it's time to find the next frontier of weirdness.

Weifang launches an international youth kite culture exchange event. Young people from around the world explored kite culture, learned traditional kite-making from heritage masters, and flew peace-themed kites together. A vibrant showcase of Weifang’s open, welcoming spirit and the charm of its intangible cultural heritage.

Weifang was officially designated as the "World Kite Capital" in 1988. On the occasion of the opening of the 43rd Weifang International Kite Festival, Russian international student Letskaya Eter stepped into Weifang to explore the mutual embrace between traditional Chinese culture and modern industries. As paper kites soar in the sky, one end is tied to a millennia-old cultural heritage, while the other connects to a massive industrial cluster — over 85% of the world's kites are produced here, with an annual output nearing 100 million pieces, exported to more than 50 countries and regions. Nowadays, kite manufacturing has achieved automation and large-scale production. In the humming workshops, every piece of equipment relies on the pulse of electricity. State Grid provides stable and reliable power to support industrial transformation and upgrading. By innovatively applying autonomous inspection technology using drone mobile airports, the inspection efficiency has been improved by 78% compared to traditional manual inspections. This injects powerful momentum into the millennia-old craft, propelling traditional techniques towards innovation and enabling Chinese stories to fly across the world on the wings of Weifang's paper kites.

Bari Weiss may be losing control of CBS News. According to Puck News today, Paramount-Skydance is in informal talks to strip her of day-to-day control over 60 Minutes, CBS Evening News, and CBS Mornings. CNN CEO Mark Thompson is being considered to take over. David Ellison met with him in recent days. Five months ago, Weiss killed Sharyn Alfonsi’s 60 Minutes piece on CECOT — the El Salvador prison where the Trump administration sends deportees. Alfonsi’s email to staffers: “It is factually correct. Pulling it now is not an editorial decision. It is a political one.” Weiss reportedly threatened to sue Alfonsi over the dispute. Yesterday Anderson Cooper left 60 Minutes. He had been on Weiss’s short list to anchor the Evening News. He turned the anchor job down. Then he declined to renew his 60 Minutes contract. Paramount’s official statement today: “Bari has the full support of Paramount and David Ellison. Reports suggesting otherwise are inaccurate.” Under the proposed restructure, Weiss wouldn’t be fired. She’d keep “broad editorial influence.” She’d just lose the daily TV control. The face changes. The CECOT story stays buried.