Celeste Roberge’s sculpture “The Weight of Grief” #art
Posts by Ron Judy / 周廷戎
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
🇹🇼 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...
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...
⚡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.
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.
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:
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...
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:
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...
🚨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...
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:
Palantir’s CEO Alexander Karp on getting rejected by Habermas as his dissertation advisor: www.politico.com/news/magazin...
Taiwan: Earth god temples