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Dang Nguyen

@digitaldang.bsky.social

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

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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

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Dang Nguyen @digitaldang.bsky.social · 2h

Cut it with some sour hearts.

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

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Dang Nguyen @digitaldang.bsky.social · 2h

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 · 3h

Here, take this with you.

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

Dang Nguyen @digitaldang.bsky.social · 4h

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

Dang Nguyen @digitaldang.bsky.social · 4h

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

Dang Nguyen @digitaldang.bsky.social · 4h

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

Dang Nguyen @digitaldang.bsky.social · 4h

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

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Dang Nguyen @digitaldang.bsky.social · 4h

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

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Dang Nguyen @digitaldang.bsky.social · 5h

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

Dang Nguyen @digitaldang.bsky.social · 6h

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

Dang Nguyen @digitaldang.bsky.social · 7h

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Dang Nguyen @digitaldang.bsky.social · 7h

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

Alt: The Alexandria Quartet

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Dang Nguyen @digitaldang.bsky.social · 11h

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.

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Dang Nguyen @digitaldang.bsky.social · 22h

Well go on, show us then!

Dang Nguyen @digitaldang.bsky.social · 23h

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

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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.)

Dang Nguyen @digitaldang.bsky.social · 2d

I’ll be contributing a global perspective from my work on information operations, examining how emerging AI systems are transforming the infrastructures of electoral trust and information integrity across the Asia–Pacific and beyond.

Dang Nguyen @digitaldang.bsky.social · 2d

The discussion will bring together leading voices in election security and digital governance, including Scott Bates (USC), Michael Coden (MIT), Jude Meche (Democratic Senate Campaign Committee), Eryk Waligora (Accenture), and Kim Wyden (former CISA).

Dang Nguyen @digitaldang.bsky.social · 2d

I’ll be joining the University of Southern California’s Center on Communication Leadership and Policy for the event “U.S. Election Cybersecurity: New Challenges and Tools for 2026” on Tuesday, October 21 (2–4 PM ET).

📍 Details and registration: annenberg.usc.edu/events/cclp/...

Promotional graphic for the USC Center on Communication Leadership and Policy event titled “U.S. Election Cybersecurity: New Challenges and Tools for 2026.” The event will be held on Tuesday, October 21, from 11 a.m. to noon PT (2–3 p.m. ET), both online and in person at DACOR Bacon House in Washington, D.C. The graphic includes a QR code labeled “RSVP” and the URL annenberg.usc.edu/cybersecure. Logos of USC Annenberg and USC Dornsife appear at the bottom against a dark blue background with network line graphics.

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Dang Nguyen @digitaldang.bsky.social · 2d

It’s a pleasure! You’ve built the infrastructure that makes this kind of seeing possible. 🙂