Celeste Roberge’s sculpture “The Weight of Grief” #art

Here are some more photos taken by the Jesuits in Taiwan, ca. 1960s.

#photography #Taiwan

Researchers: here’s how to audit your fragmented digital identity Services that track researcher profiles can splinter people’s online identities — but there are ways to keep them consistent.

Interesting piece on the fragmenting of digital identities in the sciences, key point:

"keep your ORCID profile up to date... it is controlled by the researcher, portable across institutions and designed to connect to publishers, funders and organizational systems"

#AcademicChatter

Taiwan's Martial Law-era archives fully declassified - Focus Taiwan Taiwan's top intelligence agency said Monday that it has completely declassified tens of thousands of political archives it possessed from the Martial Law period and transferred them to the National A...

🇹🇼 Tens of thousands of political documents from Taiwan’s years of one-party rule have been fully declassified by its top intelligence agency. All pre-1992 records have been transferred to the National Archives for public view with no redactions.

focustaiwan.tw/politics/202...

Sam Altman Says He's Suddenly Worried Dead Internet Theory Is Coming True Sam Altman is suddenly open to the idea that the internet may be polluted with too many AI models — and god knows who's responsible.

For some reason this all reminded me of Nikolai Gogol’s novel “Dead Souls,” where Chickikov goes about the countryside buying up the rights to dead serfs futurism.com/sam-altman-d...

Review: Ká-sióng, A Collection of Taiwanese Short Fiction | New Bloom Magazine Literary translation is having a moment, particularly in Taiwan. You might have seen the recent, glowing New York Times profile of Tilted Axis, a British publisher specializing in translated…

“Ká-Sióng” 假想: newbloommag.net/2025/04/05/k...

Historic election ousts Hungary's Orban after 16 years in power The election results are "painful for us, but clear," Orban said in a brief concession speech Sunday night.

⚡Historic election ousts Hungary's Orban after 16 years in power.

The election results are "painful for us, but clear," Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said in a brief concession speech Sunday night.

AI奇谈：白头鹰大战波斯猫 YouTube video by roynotfun

That PRC produced satirical USA vs. Iran AI video with Engl. subtitles is peculiar in that it has no Israeli character or Epstein references…Overall: 3 out of 5 stars
youtu.be/mdBL1kmy6F0?...

This was a great, timely episode

all these universities kept axing medieval history departments as if they thought tyrants beefing with the Pope was going to stop being relevant

Cheng Li-wun's startled response to a CCP official's comment on having "viewed her vids" led netizens on a mad scramble to uncover her past — from being an activist denouncing the KMT's inhumane treatment of the #Taiwanese in 1989, to dressing up as a #bunny for Lien Chan's farewell banquet in 2005.

《國有器官 State Organs》預告片｜中國源源不絕的器官移植來自何處？｜Giloo紀實影音 YouTube video by Giloo紀實影音

Received a polite notice from the university that there would be a public showing of the Falun Gong documentary "State Organs"《國有器官》on 4/25, emphasizing there would be a significant police presence on campus... youtu.be/Zo6A-qnVkBI?...

Highlights included:

1990 VHS • Cyberpunk 60 FPS : The Vista Group® : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

Someone at the hellsite posted a clip from this, Cyberpunk (1990) documentary, so I looked it up at the Internet Archive archive.org/details/TheV...

"Many people in Taiwan have a positive image of Japan for its anime and manga rather than focusing on history," the guide said.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

I study fascism. I’ve already fled America. On this week’s “More To The Story,” former Yale philosophy professor Jason Stanley explains his recent move to Canada and calls the Trump administration’s takeover of the US government a “coup.”

The author of How Fascism Works and Erasing History: How Fascists Rewrite the Past to Control the Future is clear:

He believes the United States is currently under an authoritarian regime led by a fascist leader.

The Earth Cow has been stirring a lot down there recently… #地牛翻身

Today's top headlines:

Inherent Vice by Thomas Pynchon – Official Book Trailer YouTube video by Penguin Books USA

Back in 2009 Thomas Pynchon voiceovered a video book trailer for his new novel, Inherent Vice, published by Penguin. Watched it again today and it really feels like it didn't get nearly enough appreciation:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjWK...

People sleep inside Wuwei Ling temple during the annual dream seeking event on Beigan island People sleep inside Wuwei Ling temple during the annual dream seeking event on Beigan island, Matsu archipelago, Taiwan March 17, 2026. REUTERS/Ann Wang

Seriously though, what if you have a nightmare? www.reutersconnect.com/item/people-...

Call for Abstracts: 11th annual conference Freedom Eleventh annual conference of the Danish Society for Marxist Studies Copenhagen Business School, Denmark2-3 October 2026 Open call While we particularly encourage engagements with the theme…

🚨CALL FOR ABSTRACTS🚨

We are proud to announce the call for abstracts for our 11th annual conference: FREEDOM.

The conference takes place at Copenhagen Business School on October 2-3 2026.

Read the full call here 👇 and submit before 1 May 2026 💌

marxistiskestudier.com/2026/03/03/c...

Nice interview with one of Taiwan’s most important spaces for sound culture

countercurrentmag.com/thecube

AI’s green-energy goal is devastating Taiwan’s coastal villages restofworld.org/2026/taiwan-ai-green-ene...

Taiwan’s higher education faces a growing talent gap | Taiwan News | Mar. 22, 2026 16:44 Falling doctoral enrollment and weak incentives are straining the pipeline of future faculty | Mar. 22, 2026 16:44

Higher ed in Taiwan in trouble. Has been for years
www.taiwannews.com.tw/news/6325704

Ben Lerner, Alexander Kluge: In Omega’s Labyrinth (German, English) YouTube video by HKW – Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW)

Kluge was having fun with Ben Lerner in this, trying to get him to learn German youtu.be/7DmzI5l2J7M?...

臭豆腐

Not all of it is manufactured, and I actually lived next door to a stinky tofu workshop in Yilan many years ago (2009). Here’s a pick of it drying outside my door in wicker baskets:

Opinion | My Time with Jürgen Habermas, Europe's 'Last Intellectual' The sting of rejection lingered for years.

Palantir’s CEO Alexander Karp on getting rejected by Habermas as his dissertation advisor: www.politico.com/news/magazin...

Taiwan: Earth god temples

Butthole Surfers To Release Shelved 1998 Album 'After The Astronaut' In 1996, the Butthole Surfers hit the big time. For years, they’d been known as the biggest freaks on the American underground rock circuit, and this was during a time when the American underground ro...

Butthole Surfers to release shelved 1998 album 'After The Astronaut'