Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

Dang Nguyen

@digitaldang.bsky.social

1.1K followers 410 following 690 posts

Researcher of media technologies and infrastructures from below and across Southeast Asia www.dangnguyen.digital

Posts Media Videos Starter Packs

Pinned

Dang Nguyen @digitaldang.bsky.social · 26d

The third stack is here.

A path for ai that isn’t the stale U.S.–China binary, but something assembled, sovereign, and stubbornly local.

My essay in Noema: www.noemamag.com/a-third-path...

A Third Path For AI Beyond The US-China Binary | NOEMA

What if the future of AI isn’t defined by Washington or Beijing, but by improvisation elsewhere?

www.noemamag.com

1 4 6

Dang Nguyen @digitaldang.bsky.social · 3h

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand:

Platform changed its ontology.

Joshua R Greenberg @joshrgreenberg.bsky.social · 10h

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand:

More statement, less question.

Adam Rothman enjoys a good sandwich @adamrothman.bsky.social · 10h

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand:

We use parenthetical citations.

Dang Nguyen @digitaldang.bsky.social · 7h

It’s also a reminder of how institutional design still lags planetary ambition. How does “value” get recalibrated when the asset in question is planetary, not just fiscal? (2/2)

Dang Nguyen @digitaldang.bsky.social · 7h

This is a fascinating case—the duty not to exploit a monopoly bumps up against a Treasury-facing profit mandate. The result is that a public asset like the seabed starts behaving like rent-yielding infrastructure rather than part of the UK’s decarbonisation system. (1/2)

1 6

Dang Nguyen @digitaldang.bsky.social · 11h

Sounds like a party!

No sugar added FUNDAY Natural Sweets Party Mix

Dang Nguyen @digitaldang.bsky.social · 13h

Cut it with some sour hearts.

No sugar added. FUNDAY. Natural sweets. Sour. Peach flavoured hearts.

1 1

Dang Nguyen @digitaldang.bsky.social · 13h

Boy don't I have just the thing for you.

No sugar added. FUNDAY. Natural sweets. Sour. Cola flavoured bottles.

Dang Nguyen @digitaldang.bsky.social · 15h

Here, take this with you.

Chewy QuickEze, rapid relief for heartburn and acid indigestion, peppermint flavour

Dang Nguyen @digitaldang.bsky.social · 15h

It's fight or flight at this point... how did it end???

Dang Nguyen @digitaldang.bsky.social · 15h

Further resources from these workshops are now available on the USC website: electionsecurity.usc.edu/resources/

Dang Nguyen @digitaldang.bsky.social · 15h

I'd like to have a word with the bartender about that disastrous pour...

Dang Nguyen @digitaldang.bsky.social · 16h

In 2020 USC election cybersecurity workshops, Tang, described as one of the "ten greatest Taiwanese computing personalities," demonstrated by video how that country defended against disinformation during its presidential election and the COVID-19 pandemic.

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

How Taiwan defended against disinformation during presidential election and the COVID-19 pandemic

YouTube video by USC Election Security

www.youtube.com

Dang Nguyen @digitaldang.bsky.social · 16h

Audrey Tang, Taiwan's first Minister of Digital Affairs, was one of three winners of the 2025 Right Livelihood Award in Sweden last week.

www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/...

Audrey Tang receives humanitarian prize - Taipei Times

Bringing Taiwan to the World and the World to Taiwan

www.taipeitimes.com

1 1

Dang Nguyen @digitaldang.bsky.social · 16h

That’s a teapot beer—short, stout, and somewhere between imperial and imaginary.

Dang Nguyen @digitaldang.bsky.social · 17h

Proof that the human condition is, as ever, non-deterministic.

Dang Nguyen @digitaldang.bsky.social · 18h

1 1

Dang Nguyen @digitaldang.bsky.social · 19h

a cartoon of two men talking to each other with the words harmonizing hello .

Alt: The Alexandria Quartet

media.tenor.com

Dang Nguyen @digitaldang.bsky.social · 22h

a seamless pattern of faces on a black background

Alt: Disclosure is an English EDM-pop rock band / DJ and production duo consisting of brothers Howard and Guy Lawrence.

media.tenor.com

Dang Nguyen @digitaldang.bsky.social · 1d

Well go on, show us then!

Dang Nguyen @digitaldang.bsky.social · 1d

Is this the Sazerac talking?

Dang Nguyen @digitaldang.bsky.social · 1d

Maybe that’s just the text trying to teach back, in its own way. The question is whether we would let it.

Dang Nguyen @digitaldang.bsky.social · 1d

Reweaving without a trace… what's next, writing without remainder??

Dang Nguyen @digitaldang.bsky.social · 1d

a man in a blue suit and tie is holding a pencil in his hand

Alt: a man in a blue suit and tie is sharpening his pencils

media.tenor.com

Dang Nguyen @digitaldang.bsky.social · 2d

Levelled up!

Consciousness is Fredric Jameson remixed

Dang Nguyen @digitaldang.bsky.social · 2d

Thanks Fan! Looking forward to it!

Dang Nguyen @digitaldang.bsky.social · 2d

Turns out it’s Kim Wyman, not Wyden—correction from the event team. Everything else still gloriously on track for the session next week. (You can’t make elections without a little version control.)