Adventures in learning Mandarin. As a heritage speaker, I have to learn Mandarin differently. It has been a frustrating and fun journey so far. Fortunately, lots of content from language learning experts, and I found one that is the clearest one yet!
Category: Link Blog
Links to interesting articles I’ve come across.
I think I read a racist thing from Canada this morning
Rather than demand articles such as these to be stripped off the Internet, perhaps we need to resist the impulse to label groups of people and understand the reason behind the hatred and anger.
Thoughts on Tucker Carlson’s interview with Vladmir Putin
My thoughts about the two-hour Tucker Carlson interview with Russian president Vladmir Putin.
Is the Internet really broken?
My thoughts about The Verge's article, The people who ruined the Internet and Danny Sullivan's response, and the conversation swirling around SEO and the suckiness of the Internet.
Racism, bias in entertainment
Can we agree on one thing? Racism, bias and cringe-worthy depictions of foreign nations is not unique to Chinese entertainment.
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.
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.