Category: Link Blog
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Thoughts on Tucker Carlson’s interview with Vladmir Putin
My thoughts about the two-hour Tucker Carlson interview with Russian president Vladmir Putin.
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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.
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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.
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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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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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“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.
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Weekend Tales #2
Dealing with digital burnout and a bumper issue with 12 recommended reads! 📧 To read, subscribe to the blog.
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Google: All your content are belong to us
In a move that surprised absolutely nobody, Google has changed its privacy policy to declare that they will scrape up anything you post online to train their AI tools. How should writers and artists protect their content from now on?
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Leaving the cult of wokeness
Africa Brooke’s open letter, “Why I’m leaving the cult of wokeness” gave voice to what many have hidden in their hearts, too afraid to speak up.
Elizabeth Tai 