Being online is a big part of our life. The average person is spending hours on social media each day, even more actively online, even more staring at screens.
While there are all kinds of smart think-pieces, essays, and books about the societal consequences of this, I think that when it comes to our own life, art is the more powerful way to engage with these issues. Like this installation at Pier 2 in Kaohsiung (高雄市) - a wonderful area to stroll around!
It's a nice piece to remind us of our smartphone use (as if that was necessary!), but its strength lies in allowing us to address it ironically, in a fun way, "performative" if you want so. There is a clear invitation to sit down next to the lady on the left, to interact with her (and be it by ignoring her), to take a picture of doing that. And thus, on another level, the art piece about using smartphones creates a reason to stop using them, to think while using them (of course to use them to capture all that!), and again to talk about it.
@aral@stevelord I speak from experience. I write about America's proxy war in #Ukraine (and #Taiwan and #Libya and a few others). I also write about the bigotry of American politics. One of my posts on Ukraine was deleted arbitrarily. Having learned my lesson, I posted another one about American bigotry which was also deleted. I was prepared and appealed with evidence and documentation. The owner of this instance reinstated my post but has since blocked me.
The US is making plans to evacuate Taiwan in the event of an invasion. While this might seem like the US is expecting an imminent war, it could also just be ...
An art installation at Taipei101 for Lunar New Year.
(I loved and pushed the red in the sculpture itself, reduced colors in the background. I withhold from doing too much coloring apart from this, so it's not really a "cinematic" edit I would say...)
大家好, I started this magazine as a place to group content related to learning Chinese. It doesn't look like there are currently any other magazines/communities on kbin or Lemmy that deal exclusively with Chinese language topics so let's be the first! Please feel free to share any questions you might have and hopefully we...
Taiwan Foreign Minister Joseph Wu met the head of the upper house of the Czech parliament on Tuesday as part of a European trip that has angered China.
Hey all! Like so many others right now I am fleeing the large social media platforms and discovering the Fediverse for the first time! I’m either an an engineer or a software developer - depending on whose asking - in the Energy sector. I’m from Michigan originally but temporarily based in #taiwan for my wife’s job. I love road #cycling , #homebrewing , #cooking , various aspects of tech, and of course Sci-Fi.
I suppose that’ll be my first pass at an #introduction !
A folk metal band I had the pleasure of seeing live last year at the German folk metal festival "Hörnerfest". Death/Black metal, with traditional Taiwanese instruments. The older songs don’t have the current singer and are not so much my cup of tea, this song was on the new EP, the first with the current singer.
A number of recent sexual harassment cases in Taiwan have been described as Taiwan's #MeToo moment. The recent Taiwan political drama series Wave Makers is credited with encouraging victims to speak out about their experiences.
July 1 is the Philippine Air Force's 76th anniversary. We'll see if the new Secretary of Defense (Gibo Teodoro) actually signs the contract.
"For #Manila, it is a question of strengthening its defensive capacities, particularly in the face of the rise in tension with #China, whether around the question of #Beijing's #SouthChinaSea claims, as Sino-US tensions around #Taiwan."
Happy May 35! Today in history, nothing at all happened, especially not in 1989. Certainly nothing worth mentioning. Today is just a day we don’t talk about, for no particular reason. Just go about your business, do not engage in historical nihilism by discussing things that happened in history. Engage in historical positivism by positing how great history has been since your rulers took power
Do not remember remember the 216th of November, just move along
Lots of discussions on #Ukraine end up in predictions of a "Korean scenario", implying division of Ukraine into two parts, one independent and one controlled by #Russia like South and North #Korea. This is mostly voiced by "realists" both in Russia and the West.
However, there's a catch: in Korea, the communist invasion army supported by USSR and People's Republic of China captured almost all territory of Korea! At the peak of communist invasion, only a small part of Korean peninsula was left under control of Republic of Korea, at the peak of ROK & Allies counteroffensive only a narrow strip at the North was controlled by the communists. In 1953 they were ultimately pushed back to 38th parallel but in the process Seoul changed hands five times, and the net territorial gain for North Korea was none. So the "Korean model" doesn't really sound well for the supporters of Russia, as it implies freezing the conflict at the 23 February 2022 border, which means nullifying all territorial gains except for Crimea and parts of Donbass.
A fun part which you can use to poke Russian vatniks today: in 1950 #USSR boycotted UN to protest its recognition of #Taiwan as #China. How come? Well, UN recognized it as Republic of China (ROC, 1912-1949) as opposed to People's Republic of China (PRC)...
Build better ties instead of only asking for microchips, Taiwan tells Europe (www.politico.eu)
Taiwan Foreign Minister Joseph Wu says EU should exert pressure on Beijing in order to deter a potential future conflict.
US Plans to evacuate Taiwan (www.youtube.com)
The US is making plans to evacuate Taiwan in the event of an invasion. While this might seem like the US is expecting an imminent war, it could also just be ...
Welcome to m/learnChinese!
大家好, I started this magazine as a place to group content related to learning Chinese. It doesn't look like there are currently any other magazines/communities on kbin or Lemmy that deal exclusively with Chinese language topics so let's be the first! Please feel free to share any questions you might have and hopefully we...
Taiwan minister meets Czech Senate speaker on trip sparking China’s ire (tvpworld.com)
Taiwan Foreign Minister Joseph Wu met the head of the upper house of the Czech parliament on Tuesday as part of a European trip that has angered China.
Bloody Tyrant 暴君 - 蟬時雨 Semi Shigure (invidious.lunar.icu)
A folk metal band I had the pleasure of seeing live last year at the German folk metal festival "Hörnerfest". Death/Black metal, with traditional Taiwanese instruments. The older songs don’t have the current singer and are not so much my cup of tea, this song was on the new EP, the first with the current singer.