Author: Elizabeth Tai
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You can now turn your wordpress.com blog into a Fediverse instance
Wordpress.com has finally enabled ActivityPub integration with the Fediverse. This means that this blog of mine can essentially act as a Fediverse instance or account if I want it to.
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Single kitty syndrome – yes, it’s real!
Hard lessons about cat ownership. It’s almost always better to adopt two kittens, not one.
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Taming my information consumption
Is it futile to tame the deluge of information? Well, I’m trying anyway by simplifying, streamlining and yes, deleting stuff.
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Politically incorrect lessons about cat ownership
I think we really need to be super honest about cat ownership. It’ll help prepare a lot of people, especially if they’re inexperienced with cats, about the complexities of cat ownership.
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Weekend Tales #3
A new strategy for Tai Tales, and dealing with a new housemate. 📧 To read, subscribe to the blog.
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Why I’m ditching Obsidian as a task manager
Sometimes a note-taking app should just remain a note-taking app.
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Interesting podcast: Multipolarity? Schmultipolarity!
An interesting debate about imperialism, capitalism and why there’s a move towards a multipolar world. Justin Podur and Sam Gindin discussed this with such civility. We need more grounded debates like this.
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It’s probably impossible to be neutral about China
I’m often obsessed about random topics, but none of my pet topics would paint me in a bad light like my current interest in the US-China tensions. It’s pretty disturbing to realise that I will be automatically disliked because I hold a different view of China.
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Malaysians are multilingual, and that’s a gift
I was vacationing with a friend on Scotland island, off Sydney, #Australia in this amazing B&B. We were having breakfast at the verandah when the host approached us hesitantly. “I hope I am not offending you if I ask this, but we were curious why you were speaking English after we have left.” My friend…
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“A Righteous Smokescreen”
Why do some Americans have such bad geography skills? Why do they knows so little of the world outside America. The book, “A Righteous Smokescreen: Postwar America and the Politics of Cultural Globalization” by Sam Lebovic, attempts to explain the phenomenon.
Elizabeth Tai 