Timothy Chien

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Expat from Taiwan. Concerned citizen. Opinions are my own. Like != endorsement. Warning: contain logic and common sense. he/him.
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The much celebrated System 1.0 Macintosh Control Panel from 1984 will fail most of the accessibility standards of today.

I’ll let you draw your own conclusions from that.

之前在玩 Shapez 2,玩到後面 MAM 在 M1 Pro 上已經跑不動了,只好換到下個遊戲。

長大之後就知道《漢聲》這個1970年開始的文化機構,服務的對象當然是想像的「中華民族」與「中國」,不是今日的台灣。

這不代表他們累積的資產沒有價值,或是否認它是一代人的共同記憶。

仔細看過一輪,倒是重新發現《小百科》的內容編採比例與深度上意外的本土化?野生動物與地質的篇幅完全以台灣為中心,古蹟與文化活動等也是台灣在地的。還有一些當年應該屬於進步派的議題篇幅,例如有機農業或是環保意識。

比起自己搭飛機自願搬家的移民,這些因為時代變化而被迫原地「文化移民」的人,有時心境是更艱難的。不知道漢聲過去55年,是不是曾有這些內部矛盾的爭論。

A memorable quote from Neil Postman’s “Amusing ourselves to death”, read by Tristan Harris.

https://www.humanetech.com/podcast/the-man-who-predicted-the-downfall-of-thinking

The Man Who Predicted the Downfall of Thinking

Forty years ago, Neil Postman warned that “we are a people on the verge of amusing ourselves to death.” He was writing about TV, but his insights feel eerily prophetic in our age of smartphones, social media, and AI. In this episode, we explore Postman’s ideas and what they can teach us.

Kiwame 平底鍋煎蛋不粘鍋成功!
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First time trying to make the classical Taiwanese scallion pancake (蔥油餅). Wish me luck!

It is an unusual time with unusual content printed on the unassuming free newspaper, found in front of the Japanese grocer.

I am less surprised after finding out Nichi Bei News bears the newspaper of the same name between 1899 to 1942, killed the last time the US government invoked Alien Enemies Act.

https://www.nichibei.org/2025/03/japanese-american-community-condemns-trumps-alien-enemies-act-proclamation/

Japanese American community condemns Trump’s Alien Enemies Act proclamation | Nichi Bei News

By Alise Maripuu Bay City News Immigrant rights advocates and members from San Francisco’s Japanese American community joined March 20 to condemn President Donald Trump’s invoking of a law that […]

Nichi Bei News
一年一次的相會
想不出來是哪來的資金贊助這種匿名頻道,也想不出來它到底想要影響哪裡的哪類選民。
頻道的國家/地區是設定在台灣。