As bad as it was in the #BayArea at times, at least there was a thriving OS/digital rights/privacy community there. Here, it's like only the worst of the Bay Area exists, in a tiny Euro-American centric bubble.
@soycamo Interesting. Can't speak to other parts of the US, but there's an active open-source and privacy communities in other parts of Asia, like #Taiwan, #Indonesia#HongKong (pre-2020). Taiwan, especially, has an amazing community.
Take off to #HongKong. It was a very good and relaxing time in #Bangkok. ☺️ now boarded again in the plane to the cold weather. From 34 degrees to 20 degrees.
Hong Kong journalist, Minnie Chan, has been missing in China for more than a month. Her employer, the SCMP, claims she is on personal leave but she is likely to be detained under China's system of Residential Surveillance at a Designated Location (RSDL)
China failed to acknowledge the scope and scale of its human rights violations in the Universal Periodic Review
"The authorities flat-out refused to acknowledge fundamental facts: presenting their repression of Uyghurs as an effective counter to terrorism and their suppression of civic space in Hong Kong as providing stability in the city." - Sarah Brooks, Amnesty International
Voter turnout remained low as of 7.30 pm, with 24.53 per cent of eligible voters casting a ballot. Voting hours have been extended in #HongKong's "patriots only" district poll owing to a glitch: https://tinyurl.com/ytrbe4vd
There are many parallels between protest movements in Thailand and Hong Kong. Activists have shared experiences and ideas of resistance, but repressive governments have also employed similar tools of control
Hongkonger Demokratie-Aktivist Chung flieht nach Großbritannien
Ein weiterer bekannter Hongkonger Demokratie-Aktivist hat sich ins Ausland abgesetzt: Der 22-jährige Tony Chung teilte mit, dass er in Großbritannien Asyl beantragen will. Dauerüberwachung habe ihn krank gemacht.
This is an excellent overview of Anita Mui’s life and career. I wasn’t always aware of it then, but I think late 80s and 90s HK and TW pop and movie stars who displayed androgyny and queerness and allyship were way ahead of their time. (A-Mei, the indigenous Taiwanese superstar, is another)