Researcher of AI @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social www.dangnguyen.digitalhttps://bsky.app/profile/digitaldang.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/digitaldang.bsky.social/post/3mtviunvefs2pVery pleased to be giving this webinar for the Vietnam Studies Programme at ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute. ‘Between Empires: Vietnam’s AI Ambitions and the Limits of the US–China Frame’ 16 September, online. https://www.iseas.edu.sg/mec-events/between-empires-vietnams-ai-ambitions-and-the-limits-of-the-us-china-frame/25 Aug 2026 09:27 +0000at://did:plc:6k6axtf2dazsp7vk66ftuply/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtviunvefs2phttps://bsky.app/profile/digitaldang.bsky.social/post/3mtdroqpe3s2p🍵18 Aug 2026 08:17 +0000at://did:plc:6k6axtf2dazsp7vk66ftuply/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtdroqpe3s2phttps://bsky.app/profile/digitaldang.bsky.social/post/3mt74i2fvfk2dA day at the beach16 Aug 2026 11:46 +0000at://did:plc:6k6axtf2dazsp7vk66ftuply/app.bsky.feed.post/3mt74i2fvfk2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/digitaldang.bsky.social/post/3msrgwxhlbc2qHere is Myles Burnyeat discussing Socrates and Plato with Bryan Magee. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNFF1s_8pMw11 Aug 2026 01:16 +0000at://did:plc:6k6axtf2dazsp7vk66ftuply/app.bsky.feed.post/3msrgwxhlbc2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/digitaldang.bsky.social/post/3msq4bihxcc2h😎 [contains quote post or other embedded content]10 Aug 2026 12:33 +0000at://did:plc:6k6axtf2dazsp7vk66ftuply/app.bsky.feed.post/3msq4bihxcc2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/digitaldang.bsky.social/post/3mspspvpfc227Study Saigon, an exposition10 Aug 2026 09:42 +0000at://did:plc:6k6axtf2dazsp7vk66ftuply/app.bsky.feed.post/3mspspvpfc227https://bsky.app/profile/digitaldang.bsky.social/post/3mspflt2mtc2yHappening as we speak: "Hanoi is building a new futuristic city where the old one stands" Hanoi has actually approved the century-long master plan, and demolition is already moving faster than the grand vision can plausibly be governed. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MbnwMeK1_Zw10 Aug 2026 05:47 +0000at://did:plc:6k6axtf2dazsp7vk66ftuply/app.bsky.feed.post/3mspflt2mtc2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/digitaldang.bsky.social/post/3msoq6fns3s2pConsider J. Edgar Hoover. Beverly Gage’s G-Man is especially good here because she avoids turning Hoover into a cartoon villain: his longevity rested partly upon real institutional achievement and genuine public support. https://www.pulitzer.org/winners/beverly-gage [contains quote post or other embedded content]09 Aug 2026 23:24 +0000at://did:plc:6k6axtf2dazsp7vk66ftuply/app.bsky.feed.post/3msoq6fns3s2phttps://bsky.app/profile/digitaldang.bsky.social/post/3msmq6lxxks2bThis is interesting: "A neuroscientist’s guide to protecting your brain, in 58 minutes" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LViE-cD_WJQ09 Aug 2026 04:18 +0000at://did:plc:6k6axtf2dazsp7vk66ftuply/app.bsky.feed.post/3msmq6lxxks2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/digitaldang.bsky.social/post/3msm7fvu6os2gConsider Louis XVI. Timothy Tackett’s When the King Took Flight is a useful source because it examines precisely how Varennes transformed political perceptions of the king and accelerated republicanism. https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674016422 [contains quote post or other embedded content]08 Aug 2026 23:18 +0000at://did:plc:6k6axtf2dazsp7vk66ftuply/app.bsky.feed.post/3msm7fvu6os2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/digitaldang.bsky.social/post/3mskquhw5ik24🍵08 Aug 2026 09:25 +0000at://did:plc:6k6axtf2dazsp7vk66ftuply/app.bsky.feed.post/3mskquhw5ik24https://bsky.app/profile/digitaldang.bsky.social/post/3mskdjie4ac2eHere's Sianne Ngai on ugly thoughts, ugly feelings, aesthetic categories, exploitation under capitalism, and so on, interviewed by Agon Hamza and Frank Ruda. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAeQYeD4mfI08 Aug 2026 05:27 +0000at://did:plc:6k6axtf2dazsp7vk66ftuply/app.bsky.feed.post/3mskdjie4ac2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/digitaldang.bsky.social/post/3msjo3xxznk24Consider Charles I. Charles I offers perhaps the cleanest case of someone continuing to occupy the constitutional centre while progressively destroying the trust that made settlement with that centre possible. https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-british-studies/article/paper-oathes-trust-treaty-and-the-road-to-regicide-in-england-164249/6BFF09EDF8ED4CE6903A91D45DFBB675 [contains quote post or other embedded content]07 Aug 2026 23:03 +0000at://did:plc:6k6axtf2dazsp7vk66ftuply/app.bsky.feed.post/3msjo3xxznk24https://bsky.app/profile/digitaldang.bsky.social/post/3mshzwu6hz22bThis is interesting: "Self-loneliness is real, and most people have it" Giulia Enders is making an argument against the model of the human being as a sovereign brain driving a biological machine. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npvfDKXGyRY07 Aug 2026 07:30 +0000at://did:plc:6k6axtf2dazsp7vk66ftuply/app.bsky.feed.post/3mshzwu6hz22bhttps://bsky.app/profile/digitaldang.bsky.social/post/3mshp63lkxk2nAnother example is Robespierre of the French Revolution: https://www.historytoday.com/archive/robespierre [contains quote post or other embedded content]07 Aug 2026 04:17 +0000at://did:plc:6k6axtf2dazsp7vk66ftuply/app.bsky.feed.post/3mshp63lkxk2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/digitaldang.bsky.social/post/3mshb3zqhqs2wI've been thinking about historical examples of moral failures where the recurring pattern is someone confusing continued centrality with continued legitimacy, then making the original failure vastly worse by trying to preserve both innocence and position.07 Aug 2026 00:05 +0000at://did:plc:6k6axtf2dazsp7vk66ftuply/app.bsky.feed.post/3mshb3zqhqs2whttps://bsky.app/profile/digitaldang.bsky.social/post/3msh7rfgd7c2wHere is Bryan Magee interviewing Herbert Marcuse in 1977. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U23Ho0m_Sv006 Aug 2026 23:41 +0000at://did:plc:6k6axtf2dazsp7vk66ftuply/app.bsky.feed.post/3msh7rfgd7c2whttps://bsky.app/profile/digitaldang.bsky.social/post/3msgg7tdaus2c [contains quote post or other embedded content]06 Aug 2026 16:04 +0000at://did:plc:6k6axtf2dazsp7vk66ftuply/app.bsky.feed.post/3msgg7tdaus2chttps://bsky.app/profile/digitaldang.bsky.social/post/3msfgcrybx22hWell this is unfortunate: "Consulting firms face government crackdown after KPMG and PwC scandals" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UClxFsFwc3o06 Aug 2026 06:33 +0000at://did:plc:6k6axtf2dazsp7vk66ftuply/app.bsky.feed.post/3msfgcrybx22hhttps://bsky.app/profile/digitaldang.bsky.social/post/3msexodpzjs2m🐚06 Aug 2026 02:11 +0000at://did:plc:6k6axtf2dazsp7vk66ftuply/app.bsky.feed.post/3msexodpzjs2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/digitaldang.bsky.social/post/3msen2l3bqc2nGood morning! Here is J. P. Stern discussing Nietzsche with Bryan Magee in 1987. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxHszsVJiRY05 Aug 2026 23:01 +0000at://did:plc:6k6axtf2dazsp7vk66ftuply/app.bsky.feed.post/3msen2l3bqc2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/digitaldang.bsky.social/post/3mscwztbwws23This is interesting, despite the atrocious branding: " From 'polycrisis' to 'polytunity' - the future of geopolitics with Prof Yuen Yuen Ang" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AnBw9jxWtcI05 Aug 2026 06:54 +0000at://did:plc:6k6axtf2dazsp7vk66ftuply/app.bsky.feed.post/3mscwztbwws23https://bsky.app/profile/digitaldang.bsky.social/post/3msccwol4kc2vBusy day at the heart hospital 🏥05 Aug 2026 00:55 +0000at://did:plc:6k6axtf2dazsp7vk66ftuply/app.bsky.feed.post/3msccwol4kc2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/digitaldang.bsky.social/post/3msbzq7x5x22bHere is Bryan Magee talking with Anthony Kenny about medieval philosophy, especially Augustine and Aquinas. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpublMuRUAk04 Aug 2026 22:10 +0000at://did:plc:6k6axtf2dazsp7vk66ftuply/app.bsky.feed.post/3msbzq7x5x22bhttps://bsky.app/profile/digitaldang.bsky.social/post/3msavhcid622g👋🏻 [contains quote post or other embedded content]04 Aug 2026 11:21 +0000at://did:plc:6k6axtf2dazsp7vk66ftuply/app.bsky.feed.post/3msavhcid622ghttps://bsky.app/profile/digitaldang.bsky.social/post/3msantq563c2fFUD04 Aug 2026 09:05 +0000at://did:plc:6k6axtf2dazsp7vk66ftuply/app.bsky.feed.post/3msantq563c2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/digitaldang.bsky.social/post/3msaklblmkc23Here is Sting performing at the Panthéon in Paris: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDtjDThed7o [contains quote post or other embedded content]04 Aug 2026 08:06 +0000at://did:plc:6k6axtf2dazsp7vk66ftuply/app.bsky.feed.post/3msaklblmkc23https://bsky.app/profile/digitaldang.bsky.social/post/3msa72x74us24This is fascinating: Southeast Asians in the Arctic—How Filipinos and Thais are reshaping Greenland. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGkFc1xBBtc04 Aug 2026 04:40 +0000at://did:plc:6k6axtf2dazsp7vk66ftuply/app.bsky.feed.post/3msa72x74us24